Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a third High Commissioner M. Auguste Henri Ponsot was despatched to Syria. M. Ponsot is favorably known as the able director of the African and Near East sections of the French Foreign Office. Where a general and an editor have failed to cover themselves with glory an expert accustomed to deal at long range with the people to whom he goes may perhaps succeed...
James H. Calisch was a white-haired, precisely spoken little gentleman of 63. He had lived in Brooklyn for four years since coming from his native Holland. He was a Jew, and by night, as recreation from his daily labors of an expert accountant, he pored over books of philosophy and psychology. These explorations had led him far from the faith of his race, but his Jewish neighbors and landlady found him most kindly, gentle, a patient teacher of any who sought his counsel...
...have: the Golden Gate Park Aquarium (San Francisco), $200,000; the St. Louis Aquarium, $1,500,000; the New York Aquarium, antiquated but visited by millions annually (and now being re-stuccoed) after years of supremacy in the U. S. A commission of experts was sent last autumn to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity in Berlin, lighting of tanks in London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum...
...Where U. S. Steel Dollar Goes- taxes 4%, wages 7½%, material ½%, entertainment 13%, pumpkin pie 4%, annual report 5%, director fees 5%, net for stocks 3%, Bethlehem Steel competition 29%, expert accounting fees 29%. Where U. S. Steel Dollar Comes From- expert accounting 48%, production 2%, employes subscription fund profits 25%, stockholders...
...cents, critics recently agreed. A talkative barber may be snubbed with no tip. It is not necessary to tip a man who shaves you every day, but you should give him something at Christmas. If possible, find out his birthday and surprise him with a present. An expert haircutter is always worth a tip of 20c or 25c. This high ratio is accounted for by the fact that a barber exerts the power of life and death over his patients. Gratitude for present escape and trepidation for the future combine to stimulate the gift. Waiters must be content with less...