Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON purposes that this poll shall stimulate student interest in politics by giving the political clubs of the University an opportunity to match their skill in winning voters for their respective candidates. It should prove either a confirmation or a repudiation of the charge which Professor Hart made in 1928, that Harvard political clubs "are half-asleep." Too the preliminary information which will be printed, including statements from the clubs, interviews and articles on the candidates, and statements from Harvard professors and national political figures, may well offer a mine of material to aid the voter in making his choice...
...only control the pilot has over his balloon is up & down. He valves gas to descend, drops ballast to rise. His skill is measured by his judgment of weather conditions and his ability to find favoring winds with the least use of his two tools, gas and ballast. A U. S. team won the 1913 Bennett race from Paris when, instead of grounding before they reached the Atlantic as did all other balloons, they continued out to sea, knowing they would strike a wind that would carry them northeast to England. This year all gas bags carried radios to receive...
...defense of Russia against capitalism. This is bound to have small appeal in Western Europe, for the laboring classes there, as in the United States, are primarily interested in more immediate gains, such as higher wages, better working conditions, and unemployment insurance. Until the Communist party shows more skill in and plays more attention to devising a German program for German consumption, a French program for the French, an Italian program for the Italians, there are distinct limits to the growth of the movement...
...gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There is nothing sweeter than some of his sticks. Fact is, every one of them I got is a treasure. Thank the Lord golf sticks can't be turned out like ice boxes. . . ." The Virginia gentry...
...Major Curran was warmly praised for having carried the Repeal fight successfully through the two Chicago conventions. Mr. Shouse's job henceforth is to elect enough Wets to the 73rd Congress to secure passage of a Repeal resolution and to press its ratification by the States. His political skill and personal contacts amply qualify him. With political if not legislative victory in sight, Mr. Shouse began looking forward temperately to "what is to be done after Repeal is accomplished...