Word: experts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the World War Professor Pray was retained by the government as a city planning expert in laying out cantonments and towns for munitions workers. He has been active in many societies, including the American City Planning Institute, and the British Town Planning Institute...
Senator McKellar moved that the Shipping Board be instructed to halt the sale until the Senate's Commerce Committee could investigate. The Senate, always pro-government-ownership-operation on shipping, gravely adopted the McKellar resolution. Washington's Jones, the Senate's chief shipping expert, sighed profoundly. "In my judgment," he said, "the United States will never be offered so much for the ships again...
Offer-by Thomas Meighan, to pay the railroad fare of any two "good" bridge players who would accompany himself and wife from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Meighan, an expert, has played with such famed bridgers as Milton C. Work and Sidney Lenz. Cinema people also consider Bebe Daniels capable of earning her living at the game...
Ammunition. Then for eight years the trial was held in abeyance while both sides collected ammunition. Expert minions of Sir Joseph and of Mrs. Hahn went to the Louvre, taking the Lardoux painting with them. They peered, compared, photographed, microphotographed, studied old scripts, gathered historical data...
Defense. Sir Joseph volleyed in return. He defined an expert as "a man who knows pictures and can tell a copy from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...