Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
...eight percent of you will wear dark gray flannel trousers between ten o'clock in the morning and one o'clock at night. That is, you will unless a nationally famous fashion authority called General Hershey decides you ought to wear light khaki trousers and a nationally famous health expert called General Hershey feels you ought to wear them starting at six in the morning instead of ten. If that happens, none of my information applies. It's all based on having ninety-eight percent in gray flannels...
...arrested, escaped, arrested again. Premier George Tatarescu brought her to trial; Juliu Maniu, leader of the Peasant Party, helped her and publicly defended her right to free speech. She was sentenced to ten years in jail. There Ana, who had always hated sewing, became expert at embroidery, sold her own work and that of other women prisoners. During Spain's Civil War Ana, jailed in Bucharest, embroidered a scarf for La Pasionaria...
Vaughn Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Mitchell Miller, oboist, with the Saidenberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Mercury, 5 sides). England's Ralph Vaughn Williams composed this well-made, sweetly pastoral music during World War II. Vaughn Williams (with the expert help of Soloist Miller) makes even five sides of oboe pleasant to take. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Aboriginal Ideas. "I'm just a rookie at football, I'm no expert," Rickey kept insisting to everyone within hearing. But when pressed he remembered coaching football 40 years ago at his alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan, and the "aboriginal ideas" he picked up there. To his coach, Carl Voyles, who is also in his first year at pro football, Rickey said: "Modern football is speed. Give me four players-a center, a good passing back and two tall, sprinting ends-and you can have the rest." Voyles outbid the National League's Pittsburgh Steelers for a "good...