Word: expert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born reader of the Scripps-Howard Cleveland. Ohio, Press complained to City Editor Norman Shaw that he had been cheated of his savings in a scheme to buy cemetery lots. As a routine investigation, the case came to the attention of Editor Shaw's utilities reporter and crime expert, sharp-eyed young Clayton Fritchey...
...political expert, who asked that his name be not used, said that although originally he had favored Hoover as the nominee, he thought that now there was nothing that could stop the Kansas Chief Executive from sweeping the Convention on the first ballot when the roll is called on the third day of the gathering...
Although he entered anthropological work as a technician rather than as a scholar, he soon became an expert at identification of odd specimens. He worked for a few years in the Southwest, excavating the Betatakin site in Arizona in conjunction with Alfred V. Kidder '08, honorary curator of S.W. Archaeology, where he discovered a whole cultural sequence that has become known as the Basketmaker Culture...
These men could be termed the scholars, among the undergraduates, but the term "scholar" is a misleading one. For present, purposes a scholar should be defined as one who is primarily interested in scholastic work, as such, with a view to becoming an expert in one limited field. On this definition, many high ranking men in the above group would have to be listed under a different heading. The number remaining under the pure scholar heading would still be large, however, and growing as more Prize Fellows were imported...
...Conant's publicized ideal with regards his faculty members has been to get men who are either expert research men and good teachers or expert teachers and good research men. An expert research man may be defined as one who is working and studying in any subject (usually in a very limited field) and is getting results in the way of discovery and a widening of the borders of knowledge; tangible evidence of accomplishment will usually be in the form of a book or paper. An expert teacher may be defined as one who has a sufficient critical knowledge...