Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland torch was Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
Since puzzle solving is the hobby of many professional and business people they eventually become quite expert in this line and accordingly their names are usually among the winners in contests all over the country. When the Graphic announced a $50,000 picturegame these expers of the alleged "Puzzle Trust" joyfully entered the contest and won most all of the big awards...
...paper, the non-scouting plan sounds very reasonable, but in practice it has not quite achieved its ends. As football is now played, with the tremendous interest that it evokes among graduates, friends, and other supporters; with newspapers devoting expert analysts, feature writers, and photographers; with the coaching staff and retainers of each side numbering scores of men, any movement, any word uttered, any picture published, is apt to result in a violation of the spirit at least of the agreement. Under the circumstances, a football coach cannot look at a newspaper, he cannot talk to friends, he cannot read...
...wartime days, when it was the practice of all the combatant nations to send their airplanes over the enemy lines laden with explosives calculated for detonation in the mind of the infantryman. Since that time it is safe to say that no country, including even Britain, has become so expert in the use of this weapon as the United States of Soviet Russia...
...York. Rather a poor way to support even a losing team. The Harvard undergraduate body shows that it hasn't much spirit, and the editors of the Crimson show they have none." As nice a lift of straight forward reasoning as ever clinched a point for an expert on college spirit...