Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Early this year City Editor Amster Spiro of the Journal saw in Editor & Publisher how Japanese newspapers use carrier pigeons. Promptly he bought eight pairs of pigeons from the U. S. Army, bred & trained them under an oldtime Army expert...
...Warneke, who allowed only four hits, equaled a World Series record by making eight assists. The Tigers won the second, 8-to-3, in an icy wind. Next day, in Chicago, the Cubs' demoralization ended in the nth inning, 6-to-5 for the Tigers. When, behind the expert pitching of Alvin Crowder. a seasoned, crafty right-hander who had pitched in two World Series before but never won a game, the Tigers took the fourth game, 2-to-1, on Chicago errors, gamblers made them a 6-to-1 favorite. Needing three games...
...league ball club but if he is never seen like Connie Mack waving intricately scrawled scorecards, it does not mean that the moves of a baseball game are not as definitely outlined in his mind as those of a chess game in the brain of a blindfolded expert. His players like him because he discusses plans, theories and mistakes with them. He leaves training rules entirely to his players, sometimes utilizes an extensive flow of dressing-room profanity. Off the diamond, Cochrane is as affable as he is tense and irritable when professionally busy. He lives in a nine-room...
...York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald, upward to the New York World-Telegram where he became an expert on municipal government and banking, conducted an expose of veterans' relief irregularities which helped that Scripps-Howard paper win the 1932 Pulitzer Prize, furnished material for a book called Tattered Banners...
...broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those of dispersion, "striking at the materials . . . avoiding engagements with the men," substituting for battle "a creeping paralysis produced by an intangible ubiquity." Lawrence's unorthodox maneuvers gave the tribes the type of activity for which they were best fitted. He and Feisal succeeded in delaying...