Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most undergraduates think we mean a stern and forbidding elderly schoolmaster, extreme to mark what is done amiss; or else a grim king on a throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to our shame, this!) a celestial treasurer, an expert accountant, with a keen eye on the subscription list and collection plate. And when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded and conquered country. And they think...
COBRA?Considerable expert excitement over the discovery that human beings have...
Professor D. F. Wilcox ("wellknown franchise and public utility expert") prepared a table of the percentage content of the newspapers of 25 years ago. He based his figures on the examination of 9,000 columns of reading matter in 110 newspapers from 14 cities. His results: War news 17.9% Foriegn 1.2 Politics 6.4 Crime 3.1 Business 8.2 Sport 5.1 Society 2.3 Miscellaneous 11.1 All News 55.3 Editorials 3.9 Letters 3.2 All Opinion 7.1 Illustrations 3.1 Literature 2.4 Advertisements 32.1 The Newspapers of 1899 100% One Paul W. White then made a corresponding analysis of present-day journals for Editor...
Bird and Mammal Expert Comes...
However in the second half of the inning the waiters nicked the efficiency expert Baldwin for 26 hits by their own count, the game ending at 23-2 because the bystanders liked the score, and because Chef Otto, as referee, called off the game in order to set his victorious assistants to washing glasses. Coach Stevens, as umpire, had been fixed by the waiters beforehand by means of liberal and efficient service...