Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Years ago I had hope that by careful work our colleges might develop some such training in literary skill as is developed in musical conservatories. Experiment proved that this, at least to my mind, was impracticable. The only way to learn to write so that anyone will read it to write 'nulla dies sine linea' On the whole, the true school of literary production for the past century has been journalism. In the reporter's work there is reality unattainable academically. Taste is another matter and taste is the product of training. But after all nothing amounts to anything without...
...London, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, surgeon, authority on intestinal disorders (TIME, Dec. 7), found his photograph printed on 40,000 menus of Lyons restaurants.* The printing was done without his knowledge. He needs no such publicity. Nor does such publicity injure his reputation, nor curtail his skill. None the less, the British Medical Association denounced him, even though he had resigned from it a year ago because of professional criticism of his disease prevention work.† At this time Sir William simply folded his hands and declared: "In England, if any one writes to the newspapers and signs his name...
...Nazim Pasha's executioner, a man of skill, drew the noose tight under one ear. Ensued "a perfect hanging." The head, jerked to one side by the knot, snapped the neck vertebra, bringing instant death. Less fortunate was Deputy Hilmi Bey. His hangman, a clumsy lout, was forced to hang him twice...
...type) at 110 m.p.h. Her propeller is enormous-a 15½-ft. traction blade, of such thrust that it is geared to one half the motor's speed turning only 1,100 revolutions per minute. (Smaller propellers must make 1,400 to 2,400 r.p.m.) Engineering skill has arranged that 50% of the Cyclops' final flying weight, 16,600 Ibs., shall be "useful load", i.e. 4,000 lbs. of bombs; 2,500 lbs. of fuel, enough for 500 mi.; 1,000 Ibs. of personnel; 500 lbs. of munitions for machine guns. Without bombs and cartridges...
...been a long time since the newspapers twittered over the skill of that courtly national champion, William J. Clothier. He was a gentleman of slow gesture and deliberate mien. He walked about the court with a sort of precise languor, as if moving, a little unwillingly, to fetch something for a lady. Last week people thought of Mr. Clothier. They were reminded of him by one Lewis N. White, a youth from Texas who was runner-up against Champion Tilden at Longwood...