Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last the clubmates decided that this state of things was unbearable. They got every member to write something on a slip of paper, numbered the slips, sent them, with the letters, to a handwriting expert in Cleveland. He picked out the slip of Mrs. Zenobia Krapp, small, tidy wife of a dairy farmer and onetime president of Sorosis. So did experts in Chicago and New York. Quietly, to spare her feelings, the members called a meeting, suspended Mrs. Krapp from Sorosis...
...last June. At that time he declared in favor of legislation to provide "security against several of the great disturbing factors in life-especially those which relate to unemployment and old age...." Thereafter he appointed a Committee on Economic Security, which in turn gathered around it a group of expert advisers to plow the virgin field of "social security" and raise a fruitful crop of legislative ideas. Last week's White House meeting which the President addressed was, in a sense, a general breaking of hard tough soil...
...since 1844 has a Great Auk (Alca impennis) trod the earth. It was a large flightless sea bird, slightly smaller than a goose and more docile. An expert swimmer and diver, its feet hurt so much that it often lay stretched prone on the rocks. The Auk laid only one egg a year but no two eggs were ever alike in size, shape or color...
...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...
...Cambridge Poetry Forum holds meetings every two weeks. Previous speakers this year have been David McCord. Walter Brown, and Merrill Moore. On November 27 Florence Couverse, author of the poem "Efficiency Expert," will address the Forum at Phillips Brooks House...