Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...
McCloy's assignment, in which he made a brilliant contribution to the war, arose out of the complexity of modern government, beset as it is by problems outside clear-cut administrative lines and party politics. McCloy became a troubleshooter, and expert in the solution of conflicts between people and between ideas. The business of the law is to find a way through difficult human problems toward workable and just answers. What McCloy did from 1941 to 1945 in Washington and on half a dozen battlefields was a lawyer's job-not the courtroom lawyer, but the lawyer...
...expert horseman and polo player, and a guitarist with a minor but determined talent, Peter Hurd looks, talks and dresses like a genial cowboy, is thoroughly the cow-country man no matter where he sets up his easel. A hard worker but a gregarious man and a sharp observer, he spends his few spare hours reading and studying astronomy with the help of a home-built telescope. "What motivates me." he says, "is a constant wonder. It's hard to tell anyone just how painting can be a religious experience, but it is with...
...course of filming a horse opera, 20th Century-Fox was forced to call in a paleface archery expert named Abel Lewis to teach 35 Indians how to use bows & arrows...
...using motion pictures or merely his own good naked eye, Efficiency-Expert Gilbreth studied everything his children did or had done to them. He analyzed their dishwashing and typewriting; when they had their tonsils removed, he brought a cameraman in to photograph the whole thing. He learned how to save time and energy not only for his own family but for workers in the firms that employed...