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Word: expert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moreover, is but rarely used and not at all necessary. The principal complaints in regard to its closure were based on a possible depreciation in property value which might take place if a House were built shutting off neighboring residences from their outlook over the Charles. One real estate expert foresaw a possible loss of as high as 60 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLONIAL WAY PROPERTY HOLDERS OPPOSE PETITION | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

...simpler, however, to match up the blood of individuals than the many mixed bloods of a populous nation. In attempting to execute the orders of Congress, a large corps of census experts, statisticians and genealogists have wrestled for four years with the problem of tracing back for 140 years the ancestry of 120,000 people. The chief results so far have been expert disagreements and rancorous race disputes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: National Origins | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Southern California, one Dale Drake, glider expert, persuaded his friend Lloyd O'Donnell to tow his glider by motored plane 200 miles to Long Beach, for a glider rodeo there. Their air train went well for 175 miles, a record air tow. Over Santa Susanna Pass, near San Fernando, the tow rope broke. Glider Drake was left 7,200 ft. in the air. Undaunted, he coasted ten miles and landed safely in a barley field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Trains | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...stereotyped doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs. In Georgia, last week, death came to a terrapin-hatcher (see p. 63). And in Georgia, 55 years ago, was born a man destined to be an expert marble-mover. This man, too, died, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Marble-Mover | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Wilhelm von Bode, 83, of Berlin, famed German art expert, longtime director general of the royal museums (1905-20), founder and onetime director of Berlin's great Kaiser Friedrich Museum; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Punditical Dr. von Bode guarded and increased the collections entrusted to him. He told the true from the false, dominated the German connoisseurship of his time. But once he paid approximately $40,000 for a wax bust of Flora, which he called the work of Leonardo da Vinci. He put it in a place of honor in the Berlin museum, then found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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