Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messieurs, I am too much of a philosopher to worry about the possibility of my Government falling. I have already experienced it twice. Being Premier in France is very much like being a steeplechase jockey. Half the skill is in knowing how to fall...
...social problem drama. In the U. S. production, ably adapted by Producer Brady's second wife, Grace George, and acted in by his daughter, Alice Brady, part of it is still a social problem. The rest has been turned into hilarious farce. The Brady family's skill prevents the two elements from curdling...
...November 3 and 4. The question for each debate is: "Resolved, That Hoover Should Be Reelected." Harvard's negative team will journey to New Haven on November 3 and to Providence the day after. Yale's negative team comes to Cambridge on November 3 to match their forensic skill against that of the crimson debaters...
...Club in New York, l.e. has declared against such complete supplanting of intercollegiate contests. His argument was that notwithstanding the interest of a majority of undergraduates in sports for the game's sake there are others who gain pleasure in developing themselves through hard and rigorous training to transcendant skill which they desire to match against athletes similarly ambitious...
...Injuries are no more frequent or serious in the games against big college teams than in games with teams in our own class. The procedure for handling injured men is the same in either case, regardless of any supposed superiority in culture, reserves, technical skill or what...