Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carpet. Captain Mildred Olsen, of the Salvation Army, received a summons to appear before Commander Evangeline Booth, at Lake George, N. Y., and explain her conduct in bobbing her hair. Captain Olsen is 25, an expert swimmer and diver. Commander Booth's niece, Mary Booth, had her hair bobbed in France during the period of her War work. She was condemned by General Bramwell Booth to stay away from the front until her hair grew long again. Will the decision of the Commander differ from that of the General...
This companion of Presidents has many accomplishments to his credit. He is expert at chasing counterfeiters, at horseback riding, at piano playing. He was the almost invariable companion of President Taft when the latter went riding, and made advance arrangements for the protection of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harding on their Western tours. Besides being guard to Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, he has been chief of the Presidential guard since...
...Allvar Gullstrand (1862-), Swedish, professor of optics, University of Upsala, expert in ophthalmology...
...Ronald Ross (1857-), English, Colonel in British Army, expert in tropical medicine, discoverer of transmission of the malaria parasite by the Anopheles mosquito...
...Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), Swiss, director of surgical clinic, University of Berne, expert in surgery of thyroid and other ductless glands and of exophthalmic goiter...