Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving lay-ups. All season he has been right up among the leaders for national scoring honors, and despite his size the pros are already dickering for his services. expert; his father, a Pennsylvania high-school coach, had him handling a basketball at the age of four...
...waste of brainpower. Though too many boys and girls of all races were missing their chance for a full education because of poverty or bad training, the largest group affected was the Negroes. Deciding to go to the rescue, Dean Carman & Co. hired Richard Plaut, a personnel expert, to be Nessfeness' executive vice chairman. Last week, in a small booklet called Blueprint for Talent Searching, readers could learn just how much Plaut has accomplished...
General Thompson's turnabout, which raised total U.S. production to a record 7,515,400 bbl. a day, did not mean that the oil shortage had worsened. Only a fortnight ago Thompson himself appeared before a House committee in Washington to argue with an expert's persuasiveness that reports of a serious shortfall in the European oil lift were only a myth. Bearing out his analysis, Britain has since eased oil rationing...
...believes, should not even think of becoming skindivers : those with heart trouble or breathing difficulties, the obese, those who cannot easily equalize the pressure in their middle ear and sinuses, those with a perforated ear drum, and the reckless. Also, "men over 40 deserve special scrutiny." But the Navy expert's outlook, for all his warnings, is far from negative. Many physicians, notes 34-year-old Dr. Lanphier, a skindiver himself, regard diving as "a sport worthy of their own leisure moments. A more fascinating activity or a better means of keeping in condition is not easy to find...
...always, the lanky Columbia English instructor, just turned 31, put himself-and his audience -through the wringer to get his answers. But out they came in time's nick to give him two perfect 21 scores against Challengers John Kieran Jr., 35, son of the Information Please expert, and Dr. Hall Griffith, 57, a writer. The wringer produced stunning oddments of knowledge, e.g., the members of George Washington's first Cabinet...