Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four judges worked to pick the championship and gold medal collections. Never before in the world's history had such a collection of expert philatelists assembled in one room. Prince Otto of Hungary, exiled in Spain, sent his collection. General F. Hegeman-Lindencrone of Copenhagen, 85, who specializes in Nordic stamps, stamps on the original envelopes, and the postal issues of Schleswig and Holstein, sent 2,000 of his rarest pieces. U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New sent a government exhibition and put on sale (twelve days earlier than he had meant to) a new two-cent...
...Most of the traveling on my expedition in Northern Honduras last spring was done on a white road, the rapids of the Plantain river," stated Mr. H. J. Spindler '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, in an interview yesterday. Mr. Spinden, an expert on the archaeology of Central America, is one of the leading investigators of the ancient Maya civilization, and has been on a number of expeditions to Yucatan and Honduras as a representative of the Peabody Museum. He is scheduled to speak at the Harvard Union. November 10, and will illustrate has talk with movies of the Honduras...
...Miller McClintock, who received his Ph. D from Harvard two years ago, has been appointed director of this bureau and will have immediate supervision of its work. He is the best known street traffic expert in the United tates, and is the author of a standard work on traffic problems...
Yoshiwara Life. Seen from within, the life of the quarter does not present the roseate aspect visible to chance Occidental visitors. The geisha must undergo a lengthy educational process during which they are taught to dance, sing, and play the long necked unmelodious samisen. Further instruction renders them expert in all the formal minutiae of welcoming, supping with, attending, and bidding good-bye to their clients...
...continued Coach Cheek, "those who want to play football for the fun of it, and those who are looking ahead with a possible view toward winning a berth on the University squad. It is to these latter men in particular that class football offers unique advantages. The opportunities for expert individual coaching in special branches of the game, which after all is the only way to learn, are much better than any where else except possibly on the University squad itself...