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Word: skills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Except for the second period, where Worcester staged a desperate rally, the University staged a desperate rally, the University team had things its own way. The inexperienced forward line showed unusual strength and aggressiveness, and with more practice should develop a greater skill in passing the ball. At present the team makes up in individual strength what little coordination it lacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM EMERGES VICTOR IN OPENING TILT | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Sturdy, English, loyal Stanley Baldwin said of his sick friend: "I want to pay the highest tribute to my colleague, Sir Austen Chamberlain. The whole country and all Europe realize the devotion, skill and patience with which he has handled our foreign affairs for four years. With health renewed, I hope he will handle them four years more. . . . A great part of Europe's progress toward peace is due to his labors, and in those labors he has nearly worn himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley for Stability! | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...FRONT PAGE-One man's beat is another man's poison and other journalistic axioms displayed with extreme rapidity and skill (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...eventually, finding some obscure charm in the lady's dementia, he claimed the bastard as his own, embraced the mad mademoiselle and then, kicking an epigram across the stage, killed the butcher's boy with his sword. The butcher's boy was played with mischievous skill by Romney Brent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...government. It involves three times the expenditure laid out upon the Panama Canal. It is justified by the growth, need and wealth of our country. The organization and administration of this construction is a responsibility of the first order. For it we must secure the utmost economy, honesty and skill. These works which will provide jobs for an army of men should so far as practicable be adjusted to take up the slack of unemployment elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Speech | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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