Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Columns of conjecture about Calvin Coolidge's interests, habits and tastes at last revealed one small fact for the sporting pages. The President is a football expert. Although he was never a player, it is recorded that in the Fall of 1894 (his Senior year), he was "one of the brains" behind the Amherst eleven. It is said that he has ever since retained " a keen and intelligent interest in the game...
...described as exquisite. It is the purpose of the Society to demonstrate that the mandolin, far from being necessarily only a toy, is a serious, dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework of the smaller instruments...
Although it is only a preliminary report it consists of some 27,000 words and is the result of eight months' investigation of six men and a corps of expert assistants...
...Henry Maybury, considered the greatest expert on roads in the world, gave a few interesting side-lights on that yellow-back, thick, choking, aeriform known prosaically as " London...
Chichibu, second son of the Mikado, himself expert at fencing and tennis, brooded over the scene at all times. Nippon took the track and field, tennis and swimming titles. The Filipinos were crowned kings of basketball, volleyball, baseball. China won only at football...