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Word: expertness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard of hearing, heard not a single question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic Douglas Fairbanks, son of a Denver lawyer and Shakespearean expert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Leap | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Alexander H. Bright '19, "daddy" of skiing at Harvard and one of the most expert skiers in the country, will advise beginners and experts alike on the merits of different brands of ski equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKIERS ASSEMBLE TO HEAR MARIAN McKEAN | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

With no pretense of presenting an international expert's data and conclusions, Earle's book is nevertheless a valuable and very readable account of what happened before the lamps of Europe died once more. And of particular importance to Harvard, Blackout reveals what an undergraduate would see, hear, and feel of a war-bound Europe...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Second newcomer was Italian-born Soprano Hilde Reggiani, hit of last year's Chicago opera season. Small, plump, 25, she cooed a coy Gilda to Lawrence Tibbett's towering Rigoletto, hit super-high Ds and Es with expert marksmanship, held onto them with the tenacity of garlic. When husky Baritone Tibbett vowed to avenge her worse-than-fatal fate, and threw her, pleading, to the ground, well-rounded Soprano Reggiani rolled like a well-aimed bowling ball, ended on her back, half way across the Metropolitan stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Singers | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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