Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pancake had wished to be extraordinarily cunning, excessively sly, he might have written to the American Code Co., 206 Broadway, Manhattan, commissioning Master Codist Frederick Ainsworth Hall to prepare a private code for Pancake messages. Codist Hall, secretary to Lord Roberts during the Boer War, onetime (1919-21) expert for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., would have devised a code similar in size to the Commercial Cable Code, charge about $1,000 for 1,000 copies...
Kansas. Clyde Martin Reed, Republican, publisher, railroad rate expert, and Chauncey B. Little, Democrat, lawyer, were nominated for Governor...
...Prof. Hatton's round table was only one of many. Dizzy was the rate with which all U. S. (and some foreign) affairs spun metaphorically round and round. Thus, for example, Prof. Latane is an expert on Latin America. He knows that since 1900, U. S. investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded...
What of the strange Antarctic weather? What causes the terrific hurricanes, sometimes reaching a velocity of 120 miles an hour? What influence have Polar blizzards and monsoons on the climate of the southern hemisphere, upon the waters of the Nile? U. S. Weatherman William C. Haines, expert aerologist, will seek to interpret these phenomena...
...copies of La Garçonne. As simplicity is the vogue in Paris, U. S. copyists may turn out French designs for $50 or $75. Even now the buyers are speeding homeward with dearly purchased models, ready to put them in the hands of expert imitators, preparing for the nation's great fall shopping season...