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Word: skills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rain substituted for skill on Saturday afternoon at New Haven, when the University and Yale tennis teams were forced to suspend play with the score tied at four matches apiece and the deciding match tied at one set apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TENNIS TEAM DEADLOCKS WITH YALE | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...which finds its roots apparently in the very core of British educational traditions, and have adapted that system to meet the needs of a newer and different civilization, is a real triumph of administration. As facts become better known it becomes obvious that such adaptation demands the finest educational skill and technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH IMPORTS | 5/16/1925 | See Source »

George Howell's success in stealing Vera's valuables is matched only by the professional light-fingered skill of one Nicholas King who returns on the same keeper that George takes. What with the accident and other excitement, the bags get mixed. King getting that containing the letters, and Howell that with a certain ruby necklace and burglar's tools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

...considerable amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATEST ADVOCATE ABOVE AVERAGE OF CAPABILITY | 5/12/1925 | See Source »

...several occasions I witnessed their great athletic carnivals. Thousands of people assembled to watch a dozen or so men chase a greased pig about the field. These who showed the greatest skill in this performance were greeted with cheers that a king might envy and on the spot were made high priests in the temple of Brukzaus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Persian University Letter No. 4 | 5/12/1925 | See Source »

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