Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applying be a graduate of a college of recognized standing, or of a professional school requiring three years of study for a degree, or if not qualified in either of these ways, must be twenty-four years of age and must have spent five years in work requiring technical skill. In addition he must have a practical ability to use French books, both in general subjects and in other special fields...
...play is an oddity, as has been said, but it has some remarkably fine points. particularly in the matter of contrasts. Miss Alken, the author, has with consummate skill placed opposites side by side. Inherited and acquired refinement meet, and struggle with vulgarity and worse. Carelessness vies with efficiency; temperaments clash. Here and in the beauty of some of the lines (too often marred by imperfect diction) lies the achievement of the playwright...
...example what would a boat race be, if boats were not required to be entered in classes? There skill would be eliminated entirely, it would be the hugest craft, or the man who could buy the most sail...
...football the great tendency of rule revision in the past ten years has been to convert the game from a test of brute strength to an athletic contest in which there is some show of skill and in which a lighter team will have a chance. Of course there has been a spirit of conservatism among some of the older, larger, institutions, perhaps because they have the knack of acquiring students of great stature...
There can be no doubt that individually the members of the invading eleven are players who will show great skill and knowledge of the game and will fight with all their power to make a name for themselves in their first entrance into the limelight of eastern football. Whether Coach Steihm has been able at this stage in the season to organize his wealth of material into a smooth-running machine which can stand up on even terms with the Crimson combination is a matter of conjecture. Coach Steihm's elevens have always been given to slow starts. For instance...