Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Omomura, cheerful scientist of the Nugata Meteorological Observatory, considered next to Dr. Omori the greatest expert on the origin of earthquakes, told the Japanese that another great and destructive shock will visit Northwestern Japan "within 20 years." "The deplorable fact is," he continued, "that in the present state of seismological developments there is no foretelling the exact date the visitation will come...
Divorced. Mme. Takani Miura, Japanese prima donna, from Dr. Masataro Miura, vitamine expert, professor in Tokyo University, in Tokyo...
...great. But those interested in the system who have striven to make comparisons have felt that already the rapprochement has brought benefits. A system of education is after all, nothing but a type of mental architecture. If two competing plans for a building are presented to the expert at different times and places he finds comparison exceedingly difficult But if both are laid side by side in the same workroom then destructive criticism has some value, constructive criticism is possible, and only intolerant stubbornness or complacency can mar a favorable result...
...members of the University who wish either treatment for sprains and bruises or special exercises for any kind of physical development, such as strengthening a pitching arm, may secure the aid of Trainer Hans Neudorf, an expert therapeutist, at the Hemen-way Gymnasium every morning from 10 until 12 o'clock and every afternoon from 2 until 6. This announcement was made yesterday by the Department of Physical Education...
...existence of starving refugees and of prisoners of all varieties and in all places, from Brussels to Bagdad, most people know little or nothing of what is really done for them. On this unfamiliar subject, Dr. Nansen will be able to speak with the force and fascination of an expert, and his talk will have the added charm of one of President Lowell's well-known introductions...