Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...information he examines. Often, he is overly credulous in believing the effectiveness of the newly discovered techniques and in the incomplete explanations of behavior offered by those engaged in "motivational research." In his desire to sermonize, Packard does not really realize the good done by the motivational research expert, both in finding what people really need and also in broadening knowledge about human behavior...
Monk Muncaster, senior forward for the varsity, followed Woolston in scoring, with 15 points. George Harrington, the Crimson's 5 ft. 7 in. set-shot expert, scored 10 points, and Bobbie Repetto and Bryant Danner both notched eight points...
...John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During the next six days, according to his Navy and Marine Corps Medal citation, Kennedy "succeeded in getting...
...history of mathematics from the days when the caveman could count only "one, two, one, two, and a heap.'' He describes the earliest numerals, explains the origin of the decimal system, shows how ancient merchants used their counting boards, stages a computation race with an abacus expert, tells about the discovery of zero." Now I heard every thing," grumbles Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird, and you say the discovery of nothin' is a world-shaking event." In dealing with modern computers, Baird must include a quick explanation of the binary system.* He works...
...tracks and crashed in Medford, Mass, one morning last week, the Quincy Patriot Ledger had to race twelve miles farther for the story than the dailies in nearby Boston. Nonetheless, the alert evening Ledger (slogan: "Cover the World and Don't Forget the South Shore") had its expert wrap-up of the story (EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKED ON BRIDGE IN MEDFORD; 2 KILLED, MANY INJURED) in readers' hands long before metropolitan papers got to the South Shore with the story...