Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have leaned upon him in solving some of their most onerous problems. He is called upon in labor troubles (in coal mining, etc.), in the settlement of War Debts (he is one of the Debt Funding Commission); he is Chairman of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission; he is an expert on economic conditions in Europe and the Orient. The Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office were recently transferred to his control. He will probably have a controlling voice in Government policy towards commercial aviation. Last week a civil committee, appointed by him without anyone's urging and long...
Professor Lyman was active in the World War. In 1917 he was captain of aviation in the signal reserve corps, and later became a major in the United States engineers. He saw service with the American Expeditionary Force, being an expert in flash and sound ranging...
...from among the news of debutante dances and stock reports. Unacquainted with modern psychology, this hopelessly old-fashioned Pharaoh bungled his entrance. His fame preceded his person and died so long ago that it is now even more ancient than himself. It is too bad they did not have expert publicity agents in old Egypt...
Added the art critic of The Times: "It has neither the appeal of actuality nor the more subtle and lasting appeal of monumental sculpture. To the eye of an expert artilleryman, there may have been some alterations in proportions, some suppression of details in the various gadgets, but to ordinary observers it is a literal copy of the actual gun in stone, much as might have been made by measurement by any competent stonemason. Artistically, it has less than the merit of a child's wooden locomotive, because in that there is simplification determined by the material...
...Music attracted him too, and he soon became an expert on the flute. At the gymnasium in Pskoff, he won a reputation as a humorist, and he read much, falling under the influence of Mayne and Reid and writing his first novel at the age of 13. About this time, too, he joined a circus and performed as an equilibrist near Pskoff...