Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clement Dunn, high school graduate, lawyer, Manhattan architect and U. S. Navy lieutenant, entered the State Department after the War. He received assignments to Madrid, Port au Prince, Brussels. Then he went to Washington and it was discovered that he, smooth of hair, chiseled of chin, impeccably attired, was expert at mapping out White House ceremonials. It was he, for example, who lately and finally ranked "the ladies of the land," as follows: Mrs. President, Mrs. Vice President, Mrs. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mrs. Speaker of the House, Mrs. Secretary of State...
...advisory system where by undergraduate members of the Harvard Engineering School may obtain expert graduate advice from men active in professional engineering is now being inaugurated...
Inventor Sperry. Elmer Sperry of Brooklyn, N. Y., inventor and marine expert, scouted Admiral Hughes' report about the difficulty of fitting a connection to the S-4's "ears." Said he: "All you need is a blueprint and you can fit it before you even go down there. There is nothing involved about an airline coupling with those tubes. ... It seems as though air should have been got to them before. It's enough to make the dead turn over in their graves...
...that the message came from a tiny emergency radio set aboard the Dawn. So many hours had she been missing that they knew she was down at sea. Rising, falling somewhere on the winter waves were Mrs. Grayson, Norwegian Pilot Oskar Omdal, Navigator Brice Goldsborough, Fred Keohler, Wright engine expert...
...responsibility reposed in them. Governor Smith proposed $25,000 per annum each, the figure to which New York has just raised its chief executive's pay. Psychiatry has become a resort of criminal defense. Sometimes it is invoked falsely, in desperation; sometimes honestly, with justice. Judges invariably require expert advice when scientific evidence is introduced. The Smith plan would require judges to conduct trials, juries to find guilt or innocence, experts to make punishments fit crimes. Designed to promote accuracy, the plan would make for harshness quite as often as for leniency. "The power of the judge to sentence...