Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played at a terrific, breath-taking pace, with a force and authority which few women pianists ever attain. As the audience's excitement grew she played faster & faster. There seemed no limit to the speed with which her fingers could cover the keys. But aside from her technical skill and tremendous vitality, however, the critics found no more in Poldi Mildner than they would have looked for in a 17-year-old acrobat. Their reviews all advised her to temper her fireworks with study, wisdom, restraint, promised her that thus she might go very...
...study constitutes undoubtedly one of the most careful researches into the origin of one of the higher classes that has ever been made. It is compiled with unusual shrewdness and skill, particularly in comparison to other similar studies. With a comparatively unassuming and concise set of nine questions as a basis, Professor Taussig and Mr. Joslyn have deduced a surprisingly large amount of statistical material. The questions were the respondent's age, age at which he entered business, the most important position held, age at attaining this position, the size of the business, the principal occupation of the respondent...
...developed their full potentialities that neither the Tutorial System nor the Reading Periods nor the House Plan have meant all they may come to mean in the shaping of undergraduate education. There are plenty of men who could fill the President's office with dignity and executive skill. There are very few who could exert the kind of influence in the college which would put a full measure of vitality into those forms of organization which President Lowell has brought into being...
Like prosperity, Mark Sullivan's subject is just around the corner. This fourth volume of his monumental encyclopedia of Our Times (1900-1925) brings the story up to 1914, just before the outbreak of the World War. Future historians may praise his industry, value his skill in collating facts, but contemporary readers will enjoy him like" a gigantic family album. The sprightly, numerous illustrations (photographs, cartoons, advertisements- 250 of them in this volume) by themselves would make a book worth poring over...
...collection of glass flowers, one of the best-known possessions of the University, was begun in 1886, with the aid of a bequest from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware, of Boston, and Miss. Mary LeeWare, as a memorial to Dr. C. E. Ware 1834. It is the product of the skill of two Swiss naturalists, the late Leopoid Blaschka and his son Rudolph, who have constructed all the models without assistance of any kind. The collection is the only one of its kind in the world...