Word: expert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ruefully called himself- a "Nearly." He knows good prose when he sees it; memorable bits of it haunt him. ... But he has neither the flair nor the facility of a writer. He loves poetry without being in the least a poet. He 'gets' philosophy without being technically expert or agile or spiritually profound. He admires scholarship truly and yet has not the patience nor the exactness of the scholar...
...backfield proposition is quite different. Spalding is well known as an expert signal caller, who can be counted on to keep his head in any situation. Cheek, though not known as a quarterback, has achieved considerable fame as a ball-carrier. It is almost impossible to say which of these two will direct the team at the opening of today's contest. A guess, based largely on Coach Fisher's usual tendencies, favors Spalding. The other, whichever he be, will undoubtedly be tried before the end of the game...
...following five members of the faculty of the Medical School have resigned: Dr. C. S. Beck, director of the Laboratory for Surgical Research; Dr. M. C. Sosman, Roentgen ray expert; Dr. Z. B. Adams, instructor in orthopedic surgery; Dr. Maurice Freemont Smith, assistant in medicine; and Dr. J. P. Powell '16, hygiene instructor...
Percy Hammond?"Expert and amusing...
...ailing pigs is introduced. The son wants to buy the pigs, cure them, sell for a plump profit that will take the mortgage off the house. Eventually he does so. In the meanwhile, there are two hours of pretty consistent amusement?due in no small part to the expert character-playing of Nydia Westman, Wallace Ford, Maud Granger and George Henry Trader...