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Word: experts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring like an Indian tiger upon the witness of his crime was Ratanji's instant reaction. A little later Dr. Ruxton got out his scalpels, his knives, his surgical saws. He cut off Mrs. Ruxton's nose, ears, fingertips and toetips - extremities which to an expert criminal pathologist such as Britain's famed Sir Bernard Spilsbury would reveal traces of asphyxia and indicate that death had come by strangulation. As to Mary Jane Rogerson, Dr. Ruxton figured on fooling police into thinking she might have been a man. With this in mind he detached from her corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...from their stroll to the Buccleuch Arms that things were not as they should be in The Devil's Beef Tub. Instantly the place was swarming with strong-stomached tourists, Scottish villagers and police inspectors. The services of Sir Bernard Spilsbury were not required. Scotland did its own expert pathological sleuthing at Edinburgh University. Soon, except for the fact that one torso remained missing, there were pieced together by two meticulous Scottish University professors remains of a female of 20, provisionally known as "Body No. 1," and another female of 35, "Body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...postal clerk came upon a parcel addressed to "Comrade Chancellor Charles Flint, Syracuse University." When the parcel gave off a muffled tick, the clerk turned white as a miller, rushed the parcel to the postmaster. The postmaster sent for the police. The police sent for a Department of Justice expert on infernal machines. The expert dunked the parcel in a pail of water, prodded it with a long pole, gingerly took it apart. Disclosed was an arrangement of cardboard tubes, cotton wadding, piano wire, an alarm clock works and some sort of granulated white powder. Pronounced the Department of Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fun at Syracuse | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Herex price boost was the work of bustling Victor Henry Polachek, circulation director of the whole Hearst chain, who has been giving his expert attention to the Herex all winter long. The price increase added more than $2,000 daily to the paper's depleted income. As for the 22,000 deserters, Director Polachek confidently expected that their places would soon be taken by new home-delivery readers to be snared in an aggressive campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: 22,000 Deserters | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...provide space for Dr. de Silva's apparatus. Persons who have been deprived of their operator's licenses and others interested are to be tested on machines which register the speed of their reactions, their excitability, power to steer a straight course, and various other attributes necessary to expert driving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABORATORY DRIVING | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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