Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jaunty, 6 ft. ex-city detective and wiretapping expert named Kenneth Ryan (no kin to Clen) had been picked up. The mayor himself had broken him down in his City Hall office; $10,000 worth of telephone and tapping equipment had been found in the detective's Yonkers home. A plot was afoot, said O'Dwyer, to listen in on the telephones of several score of city officials (including his) and some big wheels in the Midwest. A prominent someone had given Ryan...
...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
Altrocchi is an enigma. He often stars, but sometimes shows up miserably. He makes the majority of his baskets shooting with one hand from way over in a corner. He's an expert at crashing through a bunch of enemy players, but picks up surprisingly few penalties...
...Harvard Student Council and the Graduate Student Council has every reason, as early as last fall, to expect the tuition rise. At any time during the year they could have hired a Certified Public Accountant to analyze for them the published financial records of the University. Falling such expert interpretation, students are in no position to arrive at an opinion in the matter; with it, and with the discussion of future prospects which Provost Buck gave the student councils, they could have done more than shrug at the inevitable. Perhaps they would have decided the increase in tuition...
Morrison testified that he saw no reason for the book to be censored." The defense had called him to the stand to speak as an expert witness...