Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consecrate our professional knowledge and skill to the advancement of human welfare, safety and progress...
General Diaz stands out as the greatest of Italy's generals in the World War. The Ceneral Powers beat his soldiers back almost to Venice, but with supreme skill and assurance he struck the Austrian forces the blows that drove them from Italy and that meant the fall of the Double Eagle and the withdrawal of Austria from the combat. After the Armistice he received the highest honors from his allies, among them the United States, which he visited...
...time I began to investigate them, I knew that they were ill-founded and that some, as yet unexposed fallacy lay at the base of them. These doubts were based upon a long acquaintance with the geologic and historic facts of Southern California. We, of Southern California, where engineering skill has long been at its highest, knew that no such movements had occurred here within the recollection of man. If so, our aqueduct across the San Andreas rift would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they...
...Significance. This novel has long needed a writer. In Ramon Guthrie it found one of more than ordinary skill. His aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...
...down the bars prohibiting tournaments open to both professionals and amateurs. No doubt the first effect will be to settle questions which tennis devotees have argued since Vincent Richards and Mile. Lenglen succumbed to the wiles of Mr. C. C. Pyle. Now the Yonkers star can match his skill with those virtuous members of the First Ten who do not accept rewards for playing, and it will be seen whether playing tennis for money has affected his ability. If Suzanne can be persuaded to agree on a time and place at which she will be in proper health of mind...