Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agenda for the March meeting is similar to that which has been carried out in past years. The program is as follows: Thursday evening, Assembly with necessary expert Committees; Friday morning, Committee meetings; Friday noon, Banquet; Friday afternoon, Committee meetings; Friday night, Dance; Saturday morning, Council and Assembly meetings; Saturday afternoon, final Assembly and Critique...
...crack middle-distance runner, Glenn Cunningham, who at the age of 8 was so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again. To develop his scarred legs he took up running, even learned to play football. But because he developed into such an expert trackman coaches forbade him to play football for fear he would get hurt...
...Metropolitan Chrysler distributors. From there he moved into Chrysler Motors & the Chrysler family, by marrying Walter Chrysler's eldest daughter, Thelma. In 1932 as president of the company he took hold of De Soto, gave it a new round radiator grill and many another feature that he, an expert salesman, wanted on the car he sold. Now he is trying to take De Soto over its highest hurdle by stream lining it like an airplane...
...trying to convict him everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent...
...suspended sentence ; Uncle, oldest plantation inhabitant, who believed he had a right to three men's ra tions because he had lived as long and worked as hard as any three men; the deaf woman who killed her baby because her man would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing and cooking. ... He stayed out late mighty nigh every night and came in looking...