Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amassed was perhaps best revealed by a little man who rose from the back rows and asked permission to speak. After several minutes his learned listeners still understood nothing of his polysyllabic lecture. At length he went to the blackboard and drew a series of complicated equations (which Expert Russell later pronounced nonsense). Then the little man smiled and said softly: "And this, gentlemen, solves the problem of the world...
...fortnight ago, AEC took another step. To coordinate AEC's major technical programs, it picked as its deputy general manager Production Expert Carleton Shugg, onetime general manager of the Hoboken and Brooklyn divisions of the Todd Shipyards Corp. and for the past year the manager of operations at AEC's Hanford plant...
Congressman Willis Bradley, who regards himself as the canal expert of the House of Representatives, says the cost of a Colombian water-level (i.e., no locks) canal would be a "fantastic" $7 billion. The ditch would be 95 miles long, cut through a divide which is 932 feet above sea level (49 miles longer, 522 feet higher than a proposed sea-level route across Panama). Excavators would have to move 1,810,000,000 cubic yards of earth, compared to 1,069,000,000 in Panama. Secretary Royall wants fuller information. Besides, if the Colombia survey persuades Panama to change...
Later in the summer, Professor Johannes Brondsted, a Viking expert from Denmark, will stop by and look over the findings. He will also judge other "Norse" relics (mostly suspect) such as "mooring holes" on Cape Cod, and the Kensington stone, with its alleged runic inscriptions, which was found in Minnesota...
...gathered 113 prize student pictures from 25 of the country's best art schools. Knowing the assembly-line dreariness of most U.S. art education (which grinds out armies of would-be painters each year), Hayes himself had been surprised by the result-a show that was technically expert, sparkling with real talent and livelier than most on Manhattan's art-merchandising 57th Street...