Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...botanist and mycologist has already carried on similar work in Cuba and Guiana. Loring Whitman '25, now a first year student in the Medical School will be the photographer. During his Senior year in college he was Chairman of the photographic department of the CRIMSON and is an expert photographer of wild animals and insects. H. J. Coolidge Jr. 27 will accompany the party as hunter and assistant zoologlst. He has been particularly interested in zoology durine the last few years, and recently submitted a report to the Smith sonian institute on the study he made last summer...
...great valley before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of three-card monte; the marked poker deck; palmed aces, loaded dice and Devol, who never would give up his takings, preferring a rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with his head. He has but one moral to point- that the suckers are just as crooked as the gamblers but not so clever. Many of his anecdotes are entertaining, all are lively...
...Charles Higham, rich British British advertising expert, arrived in Manhattan last week in the interests of the India Tea Growers to stimulate tea-drinking in the U.S. To the ship reporter who met him, he amiably talked about painting, discussed the work of Alfred E. Orr, young U.S. painter, whom he financed. "Orr looks like a greater man than Rembrandt," Sir Charles remarked; said that he had rented for the painter the studio of the late John Singer Sargent, No. 31 Tite Street, Chelsea; told how Mr. Orr derived the inspiration for his greatest masterpiece, a painting of "the typical...
Accordingly Senator Smoot declared again and again that the U. S. cannot get "one cent more" from Italy, and implied that no amount of expert investigation can remedy that fact. "I want to say," he cried earnestly at one point, "that if we do not get this agreement it will be a long, long time before we get anything out of Italy. . . . Personally, I do not want to see Italy exhausted. She must live as well...
...honor of a 3-year-old daughter of a financial backer, Edsel Ford); after laying in 200 smoke bombs and a supply of potassium permanganate (purple when moistened) to be used as targets for his drift-indicator (compass) when flying over snowfields; after discussing landing-skis with a Canadian expert and buying a second extra set, larger than any, for the Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North Pole by flying in 400-mile stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base...