Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record of 61,237 ft. last Autumn (TIME, Nov. 27), three and one-half times as large as the Soviet balloon which made an unofficial record of over 62,000 ft. (11.8 mi.). Their...
Walküre's second act might have ended disastrously if it had not been for the courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...
...March, gold exports forbidden, the Administration hastily drafted to manage foreign exchange for the U. S., the man who had been virtual dictator of U. S. exchange during the days of disordered money in the War. Fred L Kent of Bankers Trust Co., having held his job as exchange expert of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for ten months, last week announced that he had organized his division in the bank so that it could run itself, handed in his resignation...
...Bowery rooming-house, cut his throat, bashed his forehead. News papers took scant notice of the passing of the man who wrote "Old Folks at Home," "Massa's in de Cold Ground," "Nelly Ely," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "My Old Kentucky Home." Author John Tasker Howard, an expert on U. S. music, gives him 429 pages in a book cramful of documents, statistics and sidelights on the songwriting business in the mid-19th Century. Pittsburgh, not the South he wrote most about, was the home of Stephen Foster. Author Howard traces his love for Negro music...
...example, a woman whose blood was of type A had a child by a man of type A, the child's blood would be type A or O and could not be type B or AB. This meant, reasoned the Brooklyn blood expert, that the Landsteiner blood groups can show only that a man is not a child's father, and by a system of mathematical combinations, suffices to clear one out of six men falsely accused of fatherhood. If certain blood substances called agglutinogens M and N are also taken into consideration, the chances of disproving parenthood...