Word: expert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vera Micheles Dean, Radcliffe '25, a leading American foreign policy expert, and Taun-sheng Chien, Ph.D. '24, one of China's foremost political scientists, are the new faculty members, with appointments dating from February...
...minute talk "Jerry" has run through most of the emotions and theatrics undergone by an actor in half a lifetime. A master at satire, an expert at pantomime, overflowing with an intricate knowledge of some of the lesser known details in the lives of almost every English author, Professor Whiting has never played it straight...
Last week a verruga expert, Dr. T. S. Battistini of the Peruvian Hygienic Institute, thought he had a promising lead: the sandfly is extremely vulnerable to DDT. When the rainy season ends in June, Peru will launch an intensive DDT attack in a test area. It will be none too soon; verruga, long unknown outside of Peru, seems to be spreading. Since 1939 outbreaks have been reported in Colombia and Ecuador...
...first London merchant to buy U.S. style full-page newspaper ads and to boast of such unique department-store services as wart removal, pipe cleaning, coal delivery, cricket-bat oiling, wig making, expert umbrella rolling...
Does a nation subconsciously reveal itself through the movies it turns out? An expert who thinks so, and has written a book to prove his point, is German-born Dr. Siegfried Kracauer, who apparently knows a good bit about both psychology and German movies. As sociology, Dr. Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton University Press; $5) depends pretty heavily on historical hindsight. As movie lore, it may fascinate cinemagoers who know little about German films except that they gave the world Marlene Dietrich, Peter Lorre, Emil Jannings and Director Fritz Lang...