Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeremiah Jenks, political economy expert of New York University, recently returned to Germany, reported that Hugo Stinnes, Master of Coke, "is employing two secretaries with a staff of assistants solely to look after his widespread relief work. Stinnes provides the entire upkeep of the municipal kitchens, foundlings' home and a home for nursing mothers in Mühlheim, adjoining his own house, and contributes to a long list of hospitals, institutions, students' and middle-class canteens and scientific research institutions throughout Germany. Large numbers of shamefaced poor, including needy artists, writers and 'disabled officers, owe their existence...
...program that he directed was designed to demonstrate the thesis of the serious artistic worth of jazz. It was certainly a selection of the best of jazz and was performed in the most expert manner. As the popular dance music of the hour it was superb. But judged by the canons of high music, as Whiteman demanded, it did not seem to be so excellent. The impression left was much the same as when that subtle artist, Eva Gauthier, included in one of her programs of songs a group of jazz pieces (TIME, Nov. 12). The best of jazz...
With him-on a voyage which may yet rival that of Darwin's Beagle-are 15 expert helpers. For Simmons seeks to learn the truth about Atlantis, the "continent" that lies in the twilight zone between mythology, history and science. What, when and where was it? Who inhabited it? What became of it? These are some of the questions the expedition hopes to settle...
...swaddled in legalistic conceptions Professor Murray's Attic sanity is most reassuring. The author is too enamoured of the grandiose conception and presumptive powers of a world state, not to mention the magnificently troubled legal waters that would lave its moral boundaries in which he would be so expert a pilot if not fisherman. Professor Murray points out that our feet are still on the ground and provides a sobering antidote to the effects of too literal an acceptance of Mr. Keen's personal convictions...
Captain Anton Heinen, the German expert, remains with the Shenandoah, Rumors of bad feeling in and about the Shenandoah began when Captain Heinen fell out with Commander McCrary...