Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three "natural" swimmers: Jim Curwen, who can loaf through any free-style race fact enough to make the stopwatch stagger; Art Bosworth, those ideal swimming build enables him to be a sure point-winner in either sprints or backstroke, and Kric Cutler, absent last year, but enough of an expert so that he will probably remain unbeaten this year in any 220 or 440 free-style event he swims...
Naming Yale as "the best dressed girls' college in the country," but claiming that shoulderstrapless evening dresses were not designed for the modern automobile, Miss Dorothy Lord, internationally famous style expert, last night launched a move to glorify the 1939 Radcliffe girl, in a silkless style show...
Pygmalion (Gabriel Pascal) is Bernard Shaw's famed comedy about the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a lady by a phonetics expert; the simultaneous transformation of the phonetics expert into a human being by the flower girl. As the first authorized, full-length screen version of a play by the world's No. 1 living dramatist, Pygmalion could scarcely have avoided being important. It could easily have avoided being good. As produced by Gabriel Pascal and acted by Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, it is not merely good but practically perfect...
...summer people get encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") and poliomyelitis ("infantile paralysis"). In the winter people get sore throats, running noses, influenza. The fact that there are no pandemics of colds in the summer or infantile paralysis in the winter set Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service, to thinking. It set him thinking even harder when mice, inoculated with sleeping sickness virus, died just as often at temperatures of 42° F. as they did at temperatures of 95° F. Since sleeping sickness and infantile paralysis both enter the body through the nose, Dr. Armstrong...
Best bet for skiers desiring to go North this weekend is Franconia, New Hampshire. Ted Hunter, well know Dartmouth ski expert, who was up there last week, reports that conditions at that Uma were splendid and that there is a good base due to continued tramping...