Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boys' & Girls' Newspaper carried a report of the Hauptmann verdict, with heavy emphasis on the science of detection. Excerpt: "The testimony which did most to convict Hauptmann was given by Arthur Koehler . . . a xylotomist. The title is a combination of two Greek words and means a wood expert." There were reports, painstakingly simple, of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, wreck of the Macon, and even an attempt at explaining the Supreme Court's gold decisions. There were pages on sport, entertainment, books, puzzles, handicraft, housekeeping, an adventure column by Lowell Thomas, many a comic strip with instructive implications...
...England amateur trophies. The other one was taken by the Varsity. Members include John Hurd, last year's Varsity captain and intercollegiate foils champion; Henry Walker, captain in '33 and New England sabre champion; and Henry Wesselman, captain in '31 and expert foilsman. Holding the intercollegiate epee team trophy at present, the graduates are conceded a good chance to annex the intercollegiate title this year...
...treatment of such arts as painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the motion picture, is bound to be cursory in a survey so short and, compact as this, but while the expert may not be wholly satisfied by many generalizations, the general reader will find much information presented in an easily digestible form. Thus in the space at his disposal Mr. Cahill, for example, summarizes American achievement in painting and sculpture more succinctly than it has ever been summarized before (within the memory, at any rate of this reviewer). If he is too severe with Whistler, or too lenient and even...
...Thompson found the quipu in a basket of weaving materials included in a collection purchased ten years ago. As the Museum then boasted no expert on Peruvian archeology, the collection was stored. Lately Dr. Thompson has been combing it for exhibition items. He announced he would try to ascertain what this particular quipu was used for, began with a guess that it might have belonged to an oldtime sorcerer who employed it in horoscope-casting...
...elected president of Bank for international Settlements. But his lack of experience was no handicap. B. I. S. handles almost no cash, keeps in its vault as a solemn joke nothing but a 25? California gold piece and a counterfeit Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates sincerely deplored his announcement last month that he would resign. Last week it was learned that Banker Fraser had been...