Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What I Mean? In Fort Wayne, Traffic Expert Fred Berghoff emerged from a conference with Mayor Henry E. Branning on the overtime-parking problem, found a ticket on his car for overtime parking...
Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Führer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich...
...Arnstein got his degree from the college of hard knocks ; he acquired a fleet of New York City taxis and a tidy fortune. During the war, President Roosevelt sent him to China as a transportation expert on the Burma Road. After the war, as Arnstein sat in his paneled Manhattan office under his certificate from the International Game Fish Association (he holds the world's record for catching the heaviest bone fish on a three-thread line), he began to worry about his 1,800 employees. Would any of their kids get to college? Arnstein decided to ask three...
...Scripters D. D. Beauchamp and William Bowers somehow got inspired by a logging war and turned out a trim screenplay; they even went so far as to write some good dialogue. Rough-hewn Rod Cameron turns in a smooth-sawn performance as a lumberjack, and Newcomer Helena Carter is expert as the girl who takes Rod away from his fancy lady (Miss De Carlo). Also starred is a redwood tree that saves plenty of money-and other redwood trees -by taking the same beautiful fall almost every time the camera looks around...
Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...