Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shivered along mountainous paths slippery with seven inches of snow, fought every inch of the way by indomitable but ill-equipped Asturian miners who heartily cheered the snow that bogged down their enemies' tanks and heavy artillery, grounded their planes. Rightist capture of Gijón seemed in expert military eyes inevitable, but if snow and bad weather continued that capture might be postponed for many weeks, possibly till spring. The slated siege of Gijón would likewise tie up many thousands of Rightist troops badly needed for transfer to other fronts...
...painting and sculpture and architecture and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the caveman until the present time." Bulk of The Arts' material, however, is concerned with the plastic arts. Like a fond Dutch uncle with the skill of an expert lecturer, Mr. Van Loon begins with the premise that artists are fairly ordinary fellows, only a little better sensitized than most, and that art comes from man's impulse to show the Creator what he can do. He deplores the division between arts and crafts, believes an artist...
World Record. Expert cattlemen were as completely surprised as Dairyman Poth. Howard Mason Gore, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1925-29) Governor of West Virginia and a cattleman himself, declared that the largest birth he ever heard of was quadruplets. Benjamin F. Creech, animal husbandry expert at the University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither...
...Curtis P. Nettels, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, an expert in the early economic history of America, and author of "The Money Supply of the American Colonies before 1720," will give a course in American history covering the colonial period up through the Revolutionary war and the formation of the Constitution...
That genial iconoclast, John R. Tunis, whose official calling in life is tennis expert, but who some time ago addressed himself to the problems of education in America, has taken another shot at the colleges of the nation in an article in the current Scribner's entitled "Selling Scholarship Short." Here the ambitious idol-smasher, not content to rest with his recent doubtful answer to the question "Was college worthwhile?" points out that a large number of the colleges in the United States are unable to get enough students to fill their halls, and hence resort to underhanded practices, from...