Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government had tried hard to find the typewriter and had failed. But no matter-the Government had letters which had been written on the machine and expert witnesses would show that they corresponded to the typing on the documents. "You must decide," U.S. Attorney Murphy concluded, "whether he, Mr. Chambers, a former Communist and former espionage agent, is telling the truth. You must examine what motive he would have for lying. If you don't believe [him], we have no case under the federal perjury...
Miller, who specialized in congressional relations and economic conferences on his first tour at State, was born in Puerto Rico, learned Spanish as a boy in Cuba. He picked up fair Portuguese during wartime years as the Rio embassy's expert on seized Axis property. Miller's views on Latin American affairs may be expected to agree closely with those of Secretary Acheson, whom he calls "the one hero I've had in my life...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum had raised a shout of joy last January over its purchase of a 15th Century painting of Saint Sebastian. Attributed to Andrea del Castagno, and authenticated by Renaissance Expert Bernard Berenson, it was one of the best pictures the museum had acquired in years...
...Barkleys of Broadway. Expert hoofing and whirling by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...
...Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H. G. Wells. In the U.S., Will F. Jenkins, a 27-year veteran, who also writes under the pen name of Murray Leinster, is regarded as the dean of writers in the field. Best of the lot, according to expert editors, are Robert Heinlein and A. E. van Vogt...