Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the course of their careers at Harvard. Chauncey who will share the responsibilities of the Freshman Class with Hindmarsh next year was among the outstanding players on both the University football and baseball teams. As a football player he will long be remembered by Harvard men for his expert dropkicking and forward passing. He first came into the limelight in the fall of 1925 when he dropkicked Harvard to a surprise victory over Brown...
...Monday. It is a pleasant though dull national custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...
...Hooker entrusted last week's performance and his secrets to John Mullholland of Manhattan, brilliant sleight-of-handman, lecturer, student of world-wide magical history. Magician Mullholland was invisibly assisted by Dr. Shirley L. Quimby, apparatus expert, professor of physics at Columbia University. Dr. Hooker's guests were led from his dark panelled home through a small grassy courtyard, into a private chemical laboratory. On the second floor was a tiny impromptu "theatre" which seated about 20 people. The walls were lined with books, many of them on magic...
Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered...
...form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within the grasp and understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This book seeks to prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with...