Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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While another's skill wins death...
...Midtown to Wall Street," with Charles Hamilton Sabin of Guaranty Trust and the late Henry P. Davison of J. P. Morgan & Co. Almost as prime as Chase is among banks is his collection of etchings. Although he has neither the promotional instincts of Charles Edwin Mitchell, nor the international skill of the Warburgs, Mr. Wiggin is famed as a domestic banker, was often called No. 1 U. S. banker before Chase assumed its new position...
...semi-finals and finals of the University boxing tournament at 8 o'clock tonight in the Hemenway gymnasium ring 21 competitors will have an opportunity to show their skill in the manly art. A crowd of 800 or 900 is expected to see the contests, which will be staged in the 125, 135, 145, 160, 175-pound and heavyweight classes...
...With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...
Crane operators of both types man-oeuvered their hooks with equal calm and skill, feeling that as long as they were working for different concerns on different jobs they could restrain any evil feelings that might otherwise have arisen. The break came when some of Zimble's non-union men did a job for Shaughnessy. At once there was friction in the air. Labor unions representing all the workers employed at the plant investigated the state of affairs, and incidentally ordered a strike. For the past week no work has gone on in consequence, and with the continuance...