Word: skills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania and Columbia crews which will row in the regatta this Saturday will try their skill on the Charles this afternoon. The members of the Columbia boats arrived in Boston last evening and put up at the Hotel Lenox The Black and White oarsmen from Pennsylvania will arrive this morning...
...looks simple, far simpler than piloting a racing airplane. The balloons entered in a modern race are more or less alike, the equipment and instruments are identical. Since the wind is the sole propelling agency, it would appear that luck alone is the deciding factor.. Far from it. Skill is more important: in ballooning than in airplane racing, where the technically best machine is almost certain...
...Haven and Annapolis this afternoon. The first, second, and 150-pound Eli crews will meet the corresponding eights of Columbia and Pennsylvania, the same opponents who will face Harvard a week hence in Boston, while on the Severn river at Annapolis three similar Princeton boats will try their skill against the Naval Academy oarsmen...
...return of Jenkins means that Hill will be moved to third base, his regular position, and the infield will present its most formidable array of the year. Hill's experience and fielding skill give him advantage over Slayton, who has guarded the third sack in all the games thus far. The Sophomore is a stronger hitter, however, on the basis of the showing of both on the spring trip, and he is still decidedly in the running...
Concerning Chemistry: "We have been repeating the story in the pulpit of the Good Samaritan and telling of his use of oil and wine for the wounded man, of his sympathetic heart and skill. The fact is that in these days of preventive medicine, of more scientific diagnosis, and of the treatment of tens of thousands of patients in our hospitals, the leaders among the Good Samaritans are our men of science, such as Pasteur, Lister and Osler...