Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Department of Commerce. Once the Department was ignored or avoided by business men. It was too " theoretical." What value it had was scientific rather than commercial. Now the Department serves the business man with cable information from every point of the compass, from a chemical expert in Germany, a machinery expert in China, an agricultural expert in Argentina. And it serves them with statistics...
...United States is undoubtedly behind Europe in number of planes, trained pilots and mechanics, and in popular interest", went on Professor Lucke. "On the other hand, individually American aviators are as expert as foreign. The difference is in quantity rather than in quality. Public indifference in America is so great that I do not see how the few existing companies can continue. The present high cost of air travel is also retarding aeroplane development, but I believe that there will be some sort of regular air service established in the near future on route when the cost will...
...stay, which will be from June 2 to August 17, the men will work individually or in small groups as part of the staffs of various church neighborhood houses, settlements, Y. M. C. A.'s, and other institutions. The purpose is to give the student first-hand contact under expert direction with actual social conditions, to than he may gain experience in the constructive work of improvement and relief. Another aim will be to train men for executive leadership, regardless of the profession they intend to enter...
...Expert critics agree that Gibbons, who is little more than a middleweight, will have " no chance." Others, equally expert, insist that the whole announcement is merely a bit of ballyhoo and that Tex Rickard will step in at the critical moment and transfer the fight to Boyle's Thirty Acres...
Polo, as a sport rather than a spectacle, is becoming increasingly popular in America, largely through the interest of the Government in the Officers' Training Corps units at the universities. Ordinarily, polo is too expensive a pastime for any but millionaires and army officers. But with horses and expert instruction furnished by a fostering War Department, the members at colleges with mounted units have been eager to try their skill...