Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home-state University of Nebraska), and is still considered by two former deans to rank among the finest students in Yale history. In private practice he was a partner in Manhattan's Lord, Day & Lord for more than 20 years (resigning only to become Attorney General), and an expert in corporation law. He is the first to admit that he is essentially a counselor, an office lawyer; he has never tried a case in court...
...above works received expert performances (a feature all too rare at such concerts), for which credit goes to soprano Dorothy Crawford, 'cellists Judith Davidoff and Laurence Lesser, clarinetist Ronald White, and pianists Martin Boykan, John Crawford and Nicholas England...
...Brother, the Rock."A painter who was to have an equally great influence on succeeding generations was Mi Fei, the ideal exponent of the wen-jen hua, or Literary Man's Painting. He was a great art collector, caustic critic, expert on ink-stones and a lover of fantastically eroded rocks (his favorite, placed in his garden, he addressed as "my elder brother"). His calligraphy (see cut) is one of the most famous in Chinese art history, marked by bold, strong characters that broke with the florid, decorative manner of his predecessors. Despite his eccentric habit of dressing...
...Iranians had some reason for their confidence. Near Qum last August government oil drillers brought in a gusher that spewed forth 80,000 bbl. of oil a day. Before the well could be brought under control by U.S. Expert Myron Kinley (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953), more than 5,000,000 bbl. of oil flowed in a black river into a depression in the desert floor, made a lake of oil half a mile across...
...Australian coaches have a good eye for talent, and an almost inexhaustible supply of it. Around Sydney in particular, half a dozen expert teachers have been remarkably successful in talking proud parents into paying for additional private lessons for their children. Once they take a professional interest in a prospective star, the coaches push the child into competition as soon as possible. Young Murray Rose, who won three Olympic gold medals and holds two free-style world records (400 meters and 440 yds.), is, at 18, a seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner...