Word: experts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which appeared so simple a few years ago, would now seem to be definitely deferred. . . . Yet the very existence of the League depends upon a general reduction in armaments." Later in the day, M. Briand's "strawberry rash" became so severe that he hastily returned to Pans for expert treatment. The Council then dispersed, abandoning the Geneva scene to the Coolidge Naval Limitations Parley...
Albert Alexander Campbell '30, of St. Paul, Minnesota, has fired the United States Army qualifying course and earned by his skill the qualification of an expert rifleman, it was learned yesterday at the headquarters of the Harvard Naval Reserve Unit, of which Campbell is a member...
Levees. Popular confidence in the levee system has been shaken, if not destroyed, by their failure to prevent the present flood from inundating some 20,000 square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert...
Commander Nicholas H. Heck, earthquake expert of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, assembled seismograph records, studied them, decided that the dire disturbance had been in western China or in Tibet, where population is thin, communication slow. He waited to hear if mountains had toppled, lonely caravans been swallowed...
...Johnson did the photographing. His wife, an expert shot, stood by with high-powered rifle. On one occasion, a cow elephant became distrustful of Mr. Johnson's maneuvers, charged him. Pretty Mrs. Johnson stopped the irate female with a bullet squarely between the eyes?only a few feet from the camera...