Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green also set out to make himself an international armament expert became such a specialist that he was chosen last year to be the State Department's liaison man with Senator Nye's munitions investigation. Long before the President's proclamation last week, he had his office running smoothly. With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally...
...Cubs. In the polls of expert opinion conducted every year before the baseball season starts, the Cubs last spring were generally picked to finish fourth A team composed of young if not untried players they appeared to lack the batting strength of the world champion Cardinals, the pitching of the New York Giants. While the Giants were getting off to a nine-game lead by the Fourth of July the Cubs lived down to their rating in fourth place. In August the Giants went into a sudden decline for the second year in a row and the Cardinals caught...
Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...
...Nobody will give Perry a run." Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex., who thus expressed last month the gist of expert opinion on the U. S. Singles Championship, flatly contradicted himself at Forest Hills, N. Y. last week. When Allison and Fred Perry, world's No. 1 amateur tennist for the past two years, started to rally before their match in the semifinals, the crowd dubiously hoped that Allison would be able to do as well as he had a year ago, when he carried Perry to five sets. No one expected him to do more. When they left...
...this does not mean that the University obligates itself to meet expenses incurred by serious illness during residence, nor that it should assume exclusive responsibility for the professional care of such illness. It does intend to give the student advice as to where he can be given expert professional service and care when the circumstances of his disability warrant referring him beyond the services offered by the Hygiene Department...