Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...environments. In the third place, she narrates copious anecdotes with an evident zest. From the tyrannical Mrs. Johnson who played the lady of better days with tempestuous zeal before her awestricken secretary to the down-hearted young man who found his salvation in the little known occupation, of goldfish expert, many odd and enticing characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed...
...forehead, one above the other in the manner of an inverted, or English, chevron, and then rubbed mud and same into the wounds so that they would stand out prettily. "Nothing is too good for our boy," they probably said, as they dragged him around to the local tattoo expert, to have the Hand of Fatime, (for luck), tattooed on one cheek, and an extremely orthodox crescent on the other. Religion is not easily changed in North Africa...
Anthony H. G. Fokker, international aeronautical expert, maintains an opposite opinion to Sir Hugh Frenchard...
...took another degree, A. M. The young brother accepted his fortune and buckled down to work, for a shoe company, an optical company, the General Electric Co., a spark coil company. He learned about men, kept up his interest in education and after serving the Government as a personnel expert, accepted a post at Northwestern University in 1922 as personnel director. Meantime, his older brother had become president of Dartmouth College, a man to whom Amherst, Colby, Rutgers, Brown, McGill, Yale, Williams, the Universities of Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, were proud to give honorary degrees...
...today than ever before, because for the first time the experiment begins to be conducted upon scientific methods. All over the country new colleges are being planned, and old colleges reorganized. The process by which they come into being is scientific. An inquiry is begun, a survey is made, expert investigators are appointed, reports are published and subject to review, funds are collected upon the basis of these findings, and the college is started upon a declared basis of action the terms of which are subject to the strictest scrutiny and the conditions of which are under the control...