Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recognition of the Landscape Architectural School as the center of research for city planning was shown by the appointment of Miss Theodora Kimball as an expert to assist Secretary Hoover's committee on zoning. Miss Kimball's service, which has been arranged in a way not to interfere with her duties as Librarian to the School, consists in collecting and arranging information on zoning...
...Hinshfield's beginning is admirable, and the testimony of his first two witnesses equally so. He starts with the opinion that there is an anti-American taint in all of the text books. He expresses his intention not to call in expert testimony on the grounds that experts have a strong idea of their own infallibility. The first witness was an insurance man "with an historical hobby", and the second an editorial writer, author of charges that history writing for the schools has become is vehicle for British propaganda...
...College police report that many other expert crooks are operating in the University. Yesterday morning two men whom Officer Wilson of the College force had caught on Wednesday were arraigned in the East Cambridge district court and will be held in ball for a week on the charges of having narcotics in their possession and of attempting to obtain clothing by false pretenses. Their finger prints have been taken and will be sent to various parts of the country. On gave his address as New York and the other as Philadelphia...
...necessarily agree with the General's statement that "Germany is preparing actively for a war of revenge which will break out the day after the Allied troops shall have come back across the Rhine"; but when an expert on war warns us that war is coming, it is undoubtedly the part of wisdom to listen...
...thorough knowledge of literature, for instance, will give one a smattering of philosophy and history, and at least a sense of the importance of physics or chemistry--all that is necessary. In these days of specialization the educated man is no longer a Leonardo de Vinci who is an expert in half a dozen professions; in fact he may be notably ignorant of everything except his own line, and still be educated...