Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
...with a CRIMSON reporter, Max Keezer, Cantabridgian wit, famed vendor and buyer of Harvardian habiliments, and unofficial plainclothes man of Harvard Square, brought several more of those first hand coups de maitre of a master wit into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting, but he was soon turned...
...anxious to try to prove that we are yet capable of at least holding our own against anybody in the world.... As to our adversary, he has evidently played better than we. . . ." The game of chess, Capablanca hinted, had become so formalised that it was perhaps possible for an expert to draw every game in case he wished to do so. To attempt victory demands a move which, if its implications are overlooked, will supply an advantage but which, if they are detected, will lead toward a checkmate...
...with the Allies, was recaptured when wounded, and kept in an Austrian hospital where he used to baffle his ward-mates by playing blindfold matches with all of them at the same time. This was mental vacuity for Alexander Alekhine; a few years later in Paris he played 28 expert in the same fashion, setting a World's record for such feats...
Died. Sir Robert Arundell Hudson, secretary of the (British) Liberal Central Association for 32 years, architectural expert and engineer. Twice married, his second wife was the widow of the late Lord Northcliffe, famed British editor & publisher, who died in 1922. Just before his death, it is rumored, Lord Northcliffe instructed his wife that, in case she remarried, his preference would be that she marry his intimate friend Sir Robert Arundell Hudson. This she did within a year...