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Word: skills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margaretha Walk yesterday displayed an attractive and well-trained voice in the title role, and W. Clarke Hudson brought more than enough skill to the part of her would-be-detective spouse. Peter Brown was amusing in the mute role of the butler...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Reefers and Ringers | 12/10/1959 | See Source »

With less culinary than mathematical skill, the researchers could not make the stuff into a palatable meal. Even a laboratory dog was reluctant to put the mess away. The only conclusion: a computer could live cheaper than a human because it has no taste buds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sans Taste, Sans Everything | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...ghost-particularly among haunted show-business autobiographers-Dancer Katherine Dunham's decision to do her own writing is something of a breach of convention. Even more remarkably, she writes with skill and taste, and has made her personal history reflective rather than regurgitative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Night's Journey | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Wisdom of the West, by Bertrand Russell. With spirit and skill, the 87-year-old author accomplishes the feat of compressing the history of Western philosophy into 320 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Time Listings, Dec. 7, 1959 | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Harvard Salt Water Club has participated in these matches for two years, according to Richard Haedrich '61, a founder of the group. Staged several times annually, the seminars present lectures on the economic and scientific aspects of game fishing, and test the skill of the Ivy League fisher folk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Fishermen Hook Elis in Match | 12/2/1959 | See Source »

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