Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown him. When Raymond arrived in Tokyo, he soon found out that Japanese master carpenters knew more about architecture in wood than he did. He also learned that the tradition of submitting building plans to an astrologer was not superstitious but practical. The seer turned out to be an expert on such matters as drainage, prevailing winds. the varying angle of sunlight through the year-a subtle factor that Architect Raymond now scrupulously studies...
...Farmington) or Foxcroft, Stephens nevertheless has luxurious dormitories. a stable of 36 horses, a country club and other necessary equipment for turning out elegant young ladies. But fertile-brained James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, Stephens' president, believes that elegance is not enough. Eighteen years ago he hired an expert to find out what women do besides being elegant, learned that they busied themselves with 7,400 activities. To prepare his students for these-including a variety of professional careers-he installed a "functional" curriculum...
Phil Johnson hired an operations expert from United and a group of pilots and maintenance men from United and other U. S. airlines, briskly set up instrument and night-flying schools for Canadian pilots, picked airport sites, generally furnished Canada's airline complete, from runways to radios...
...prevalent system of disc recording, cutting and editing is almost impossible. But with Millertape a complete, timed-to-the-second radio show can be pieced together by matching approved takes just as Hollywood film editors make feature films from the results of many days of takes and retakes. Expert editors and retouchers with Millertape can eliminate single words, can even correct lisps and other lingual mishaps...
Steinberg, an expert conductor in his own right, conducts without a score, like Toscanini. Unlike Toscanini, he waggles his head both for cues and for umph. And when pinches come, he winds up like Dizzy Dean and lets them have it. Steinberg's box score: one hit, one error (playing Anton Bruckner's interminable Fourth Symphony...