Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half years' study at the Paris Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Last week one Thomas H. Locraft, 24, student at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, won it for his design of "A Supreme Court Building of a Republic." More extraordinary than the prowess of the winner was that of the Yale University School of Fine Arts which supplied three prize winners in the competition-A. J. Kelsey, who was second, A. E. Euston, third, D. A. White, fourth-and the remaining contestant, F. W. Dunn, who received a medal...
That five gangsters have recently threatened the life of Author Asbury, who also wrote Up From Methodism, indicates the deadly accuracy of his exhaustive history. Fortunately for Mr. Asbury, he knows the gangs of today have lost their former prowess, that their reputation is falsely bolstered by the sporadic brawls and killings of quite another species-the bootlegger and dope-dealer...
...universities, and thus, in due time, of all the world. Harvard has played Yale at English literature. When Oxford annually plays Cambridge at Greek, at modern languages, at history, at theology, at mathematics, at science, the scope of the revolution will begin to be perceived. Learning and intellectual prowess will be, like cricket, football, rackets, and rowing, a means of scoring off the rival institution. They will be respectable. Those who cultivate them will no longer be despised; they will be admired. On the day when the London newsboys are heard shouting "Oriental Languages "Result!" or "Natural Philosophy Winners...
Lastly, His Majesty bestowed a blue garter worked with gold, upon William Henry Grenfell, 72, Baron Desborough, now president of the British Imperial Council of Commerce, but in his day a famed climber of the Alps and U. S. Rocky Mountains and a swimmer of such prowess that he twice breasted the Niagara River...
...speakers from the University of the Philippines have been touring America, matching their oratorical prowess with the leading colleges of the country. J. C. Borja, Pedro Camus, T. T. Evangelista, and Deogracias Puyat, president of the University of the Philippine Debating Club, comprise the Paclfic Island team. Professor C. P. Romula is its coach. The Philippine debaters believe that the question of independence does not have to be a bone of contention between the two peoples The only way to settle the question is by the interchange of ideas between their representatives and by contact with the national institutions...