Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vibration is so intense that there is little guaranty under such strain that it will remain intact over considerable distances. The airplane game depends greatly at present upon the flying ability of the man in the pilot's seat. Our daily trips to Chicago and Cleveland are about 90% skill of the men at the throttle. Stunt flying, as I see it, is about 98% of the same element...
...chosen because his record (as professor, as biographer of Stephen A. Douglas, as U. S. historian, as supervisor of the cinema-historical Chronicles of America) marked him as the unanimous choice of the learned societies planning the dictionary?a man who will exercise a high degree of literary skill and judgment in editing and a broad knowledge in inviting appropriate contributions...
...first time what efficiency could be displayed by a player who never, if he could help it, took a ball on the bounce, but rushed for the net, to volley, smash, chop. Many lively Californians since have endeavored to maintain their state's tradition for skill at the net. Last week, a youth named Edward G. Chandler of the University of California won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship from Cranston Holman of Stamford, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Though no McLoughlin, he played the sort of bounding game that has characterized the players from his state...
...word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing to discharge instantaneous death in a second into a springing leopard...
...Class Committee, are in charge of the arrangements. They have announced that numerous informal baseball games will be played and that a series of athletic and semi-athletic contests will be run off. There will be obstacle races, three-lagged races, sack races, potato races, and other tests of skill, strength, and agility...