Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should merely stimulate him to decide for himself. It should suggest possibilities, give information, point out difficulties, stimulate personal investigation and decision, but never dictate. This seems obvious; but it is important that the man giving advice should do it as an understanding friend rather than as a technical expert performing an autopsy...
...Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four physicians who pledged them selves to give one-fourth of their incomes to its support. Most noted of the founders is Dr. George W. Crile, inventor of "nerve-block" anesthesia and improvements in blood transfusion technique, an expert in thyroid gland and respiratory system operations. At the time of the explosion he was performing an operation in the Clinic hospital in a nearby building. He was not told of the accident until the operation was completed. Still in his white gown and operating cap he rushed to the scene...
...face of these expert opinions, Scientist-Financier Adams remained a dissenter. He had read in foreign scientific publications about the success some Swiss engineers were having with Alternating Current, which requires, as schoolboys know, much less initial impulse and much less bulky lines for transmission over long distances, than is required for Direct Current. Proponents of Direct were saying that high voltages of Alternating would "jump right off the wire"; that it was dangerous, fit only for use in lethal chairs at penitentiaries. Mr. Adams quietly ordered some experiments in insulation, which eventuated in the familiar porcelain cup device...
...breaking a record of 25 years' standing), the discus at 135.7 1-4 and the pole vault at 13.4. Furthermore, two other Yale vaulters cleared 12.5, and its best high hurdler was a scant three yards behind Ben Hedges, the great Princeton captain, in 15s. Therefore it requires no expert to appreciate the magnitude of the task confronting the Harvard athletes at New Haven tomorrow...
...nominated for West Point. All were boys from his District. All are high-school graduates with reputations for studious application, fine character. Laurence A. Whitfield and Claude Henson Burns are the Annapolis nominees. Alonzo Souleigh Parham, cadet major in his school's R. O. T. C., an expert with the rifle, is the West Point candidate...