Word: expert
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the illness of one of the civil engineers the hearing for today has been postponed until tomorrow. The feasibility of the dam is the main question before the next hearing. Expert opinion will be presented by several civil engineers...
...Cambridge, held its first hearing yesterday morning in the State House. In his opening address Chairman Pritchett said that the Commission wished to hear from everyone who is interested in the project, but that the advocates of the dam will be heard first, the opposition second and the expert civil engineers, who have been engaged, will give a final opinion. He also stated that another session will be held on January 13, after which regular sessions will be held probably on three days a week from 10 to 1, until all the testimony for and against the dam has been...
Marksman pins will be awarded during the year in three grades--expert, for a score of 25 straight; first class, for two scores of 15 straight; and second class, for two scores...
Professor Lowell compared the methods of filling higher offices in this country and in England and said in part: Places of importance cannot always be filled by competitive examinations and it is in filling these positions that England far surpasses us. There experts are selected who retain their positions permanently irrespective of party. Wherever the position requires the formulating of a policy, there is a lay politician but all the real work is done by the expert. In this country experts are employed only on the Bench and in the army and navy, and this is why our higher political...
...match, there is a system of rewarding good scores by "qualification pins" in somewhat the same manner as the marksman badges in the militia. A "second class" pin is given for three scores of 20 out of 25 or "first class" for two scores of 15 straight and an "expert" pin for 25 straight. These pins are made in the shape of clay birds and are marked with the initials of the club...