Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ngerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna) were erect and lively as they marched into their hotel. There they stripped to the waist, scrubbed their faces, brushed their teeth, composed themselves for a short nap. That night they made the little college town gasp at their sweet voices and expert phrasing. Students, teachers and farmers from 100 miles around listened reverently to da Vittoria's 16th-Century hymn to the King of Heaven. The Singing Boys made it as simple and severe as the black robes they wore while singing...
Isador Lubin, economics expert in the United States Department of Labor, has been an author, professor, and director in the field of economy and labor since his graduation from Clark College in 1916. After teaching at the Universities of Missouri and Michigan, Lubin was economic advser to the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, and chairman of the Labor Advisory Board of the W.P.A...
Declaring his intention of making another ascent soon, Major Stevens, world's greatest expert on aerial photography and guest lecturer of the University, stated that with a new balloon of volume five million cubic feet he believed a new height of 90,000 feet would be set against the present mark...
...evening last week at the White House a mixed group sat down to dinner with President & Mrs. Roosevelt. They included Presidential Widow Wilson, Mr. & Mrs. Gene Tunney, Tobaccoman & Mrs. S. Clay Williams, Mrs. Roosevelt's friend Nancy Cook, Tax Expert Roswell Magill just appointed Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Wallstreeter Earle Bailie who might have had Mr. Magill's job three years ago if the Senate would have ratified his appointment. But if Franklin Roosevelt was inwardly amused at his guest list, it was not these guests who entertained him. He must have chuckled to himself...
...isolated advisers who feel obligated to do more than sign study cards twice a year. An adviser should be qualified, of course, to give his advises some confidence that they are not playing blind man's buff with courses; beyond this he is, ideally, supposed to be guide, companion, expert in untangling personal, domestic, social knots in the Freshman's makeup. He is, in a word, supposed to be master of the study of the transition between school and college...