Word: experts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge of racing. As a rule, he starts slowly, but comes through at the finish with a rush, as he ably demonstrated by overcoming a lead and winning the event from Poole of Technology last Saturday. While these two men are battling for first place, and the consensus of expert opinion is that Chase will win, Wansker and J. S. Clark will contest with Koenig and Harris of Yale for third place, although any one of them can be called a potential winner...
...point Horan tightened up, and struck out the next batter, while Gautreau ended the inning when he stopped a hard drive of Conlon's. The Crimson threatened again when Gordon hit to right field and was advanced to second and third on two sacrifice hits. Again it was the expert fielding of Gautreau that stopped the attack...
Thirdly: For the tinting of all these casts in the colors of the originals, we have been very fortunate in securing the services of an accomplished expert, Mr. F. W. Miller of Providence. Mr. Miller has spent nearly two years of painstaking study and experiment on this work. And the result of it has been that even to the eye of the trained observer our collection has all the freshness and glow no less than the timeworn hue of original monuments of antiquity...
...native people of nearly all sections of the world were expert makers of cordage. The New England colonists could not produce better cordage than they found among the Indians with whom they first came in contact. In Peru, a great variety of cloth was made. Examples in various anthropological museums show that most of the types of weaving in use today were known to the Peruvian Indians in prehistoric times. Not long ago, there was litigation between certain twine manufactures over a "newly invented" method of winding twine into cylindrical packages. The controversy attracted the attention of an ethnologist...
...time of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...