Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had trained under some expert lady rowers. The class of 1948 ladies whipped the Crimson varsity oarsmen in a race in which the losing team doffed its shirts...
Purcell is an expert in nuclear magnetic movements and radio frequency spectroscopy. On leave of absence from Harvard during the war, he directed research on microwave techniques at the MIT Radiation Laboratory...
...right. Some had chosen business careers-there were an insurance underwriter, an adman, a financial analyst for the Ford Motor Co. But many of the St. Johnnies who had gone to work seemed to have offbeat tastes. One alumnus was producing Chinese films; another had become a ballistics expert; three were fanning in Maryland. There were also an able seaman, an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, a professional Marine Corps officer, and a researcher for the State Department's Voice of America program...
...Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended in oil droplets. And there was no doubt that Los Angeles' smog contained...
Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner story; with some of the fastest boxing scenes ever screened (TIME, April...