Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael Watters, expert on amphibian design for Glenn Martin...
Crawford's square-headed racquet still commanded such respect that expert doubt about Budge's ability to beat him was perfectly honest before the match began. And doubt still assailed the U. S. squad's brain trust after they had picked Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, the lionhearted, 5 ft. 4 in. Atlanta tumblebug, as No. 2 U. S. singles player. But all doubts evaporated when, as so often happens in sport, what had promised to be a titanic struggle turned out to be nothing of the sort...
...announced fortnight before. But Babe Young appeared for the first time genuinely starry-eyed when he confessed that he had never heard of the classic 1,800-page report on railroad holding companies made in 1931 by ICCommissioner Walter Marshall William Splawn, nor of its highly reputed author. An expert on utility holding companies, deliberate, bespectacled Commissioner Splawn also did the spadework that resulted in the Federal Communications Commission investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph (TIME, April 16, 1934). On Mr. Young's admission of ignorance and on the news that Alleghany was marked for dissolution, Alleghany stock nose-dived...
...mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an expert at this mixture; so is A. S. M. Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only a nursery...
...William Bollay, expert in airplane design and Instructor in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology, and Robert W. Vose, M.I.T. graduate, have been appointed Instructors in Ap piled Mechanics at the Engineering School, it was announced yesterday...