Word: expert
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...time from books which are readily available, and most lecturers, in attempting to 'cover the ground' in a given number of lectures, greatly overtax the capacity of their students by assimilating by ear long chains of fact and argument. There is a case for special lectures given by the expert for the purpose of expounding and testing a new discovery; there is a case for the popular lecture as a means of arousing attention; but there is no case, we believe, for the lecture, as ordinarily conceived, as a regular and systematic method of university education...
...countries have selected representatives with M. Philip van Hemert of the group from Holland as the President of the Executive Committee. When a controversy rises each disputant sends a statement of his case to either his National Commission or the International Chamber. The Court will then appoint a qualified expert as arbitrator, or if more are needed, three arbitrators. Each party to the dispute puts himself under a bond of honor to accept the award...
...Labor education converted various uncoordinated movements and trade unions into one comprehensive movement with a definite political program", he declared. "The basis of the party is the alliance between labor and learning, expert and experience...
...Bunge has held a number of high administrative offices under the Republic. From 1913 to 1915 he was Head of the National Department of Labor Statistics, in 1916 Chief of the National Census, from 1918 to 1920 member of the Commission on the Valuation of Exports, in 1919 Technical Expert on the Argentine Delegation to the Second Pan-American Financial Conference in Washington...
...Hecht was a Pharmacologist in the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture. In the summers of 1912 and 1913, he served as a Scientific Assistant in the Bureau of Fisheries. He is an expert on the effect of light and chemicals on the sensory responses of animals...