Word: prowess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Method. Author Hurst, desiring to write down a narrative of embryonic genius, was faced with a dilemma. To explicate the later prowess of the boy she writes about, to give to the man's career, after her history of his boyhood has been concluded, the semblance of truth, to make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps...
...degree-granting U. S. college or university. In addition each had been chosen to go to Oxford, on the money willed for this purpose by famed Diamond-miner Cecil Rhodes, because he had shown himself excellent in all or some of three qualities: a) character, b) scholarship, c) athletic prowess. Here the necessary likenesses ended. But, unless this 32 is unlike any that has gone before it, most of its members will feel and cause a vague dissatisfaction while they are at Oxford and when they leave Oxford they will not have settled the interminable discussion as to whether Rhodes...
...view of the game that was bound to make him a student of the ice sport. Though still an undergraduate, the rotund Hearst man is already the Boston American's hockey expert and as such he "does", besides his Harvard sports, all the professional hockey games in Boston. His prowess as a hockey referee makes him one of the most sought-after of ice officials so that, though still in the cub stage, he has referred some 125 games...
...female species, deadlier than the male, swam the English Channel three times in seven days. Britain burbled with delight over the prowess of its mermaids; U.S. papers printed smaller and smaller notices; even of the feat of Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan, (Nom de mer Mona McLennan) in bettering Gertrude Ederle's time. To Dr. Logan was paid the $5,000 prize offered by Lord Riddell of the News of the World to any British girl who beat the record. She had grooved the dark wet miles in 13 hours, 10 minutes; 81 minutes faster than Miss Ederle...
...bereft of all native cunning. The CRIMSON makes no promises and, toward off possible future recriminations, it has no regrets. But in the chill October twilight, then, and then only, may the woodsman, fortified with a compass and flint for igniting fires, flaunt his rural and evergreen prowess...