Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barbee '28, one of the leaders of college pitching last season, has already cut two notches on his record of victories. Virginia and Georgetown having fallen before his skill. On the spring trip last year Duplin of Georgetown, then a substitute, came through with a hit in the pinch which lost the game for the Harvard hurler. In the meeting last week Duplin, as regular left fielder, contributed three of his team's 12 hits...
...that the colleges' presidential poll is ended, undergraduates inclined to politics have a chance to show their skill in treating the more awkward subject of international affairs. Amherst, Cornell, and Michigan have been selected for assemblies of student representatives, who will proceed, in the approved League of Nations manner, to discuss such matters as disarmament and the tariff...
...diverts, digresses. He likes Chinese water colors and all manner of arty things. He drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...
...them he pressed, shoved & stepped twice last week at a tempo & pressure that made, for example, his finale of Brahm's C Minor Symphony the fulminant of a Manhattan explosion of applause. The players were both glad that they were done with him and proud that their skill had met his demands. For the beat of his baton brevets a player an artist...
Author Millin, who knows her South Africa, has flayed artistic egotism with gentle skill...