Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fifth Symphony, was more obscure but in it Irina Baronova and David Lichine did a memorable passion dance. Le Beau Danube had an amazing mazurka done by Leonide Massine and Tatiana Riabouchinska (see cut}. Their footwork was incredibly swift and sure. But all the leading dancers were so expert that they made the most marvelous spins and leaps seem incidental. That was the way of the old Russian Ballet which Serge Diaghilev brought out of St. Petersburg into Europe. He built up its reputation to top-notch not only because he had dancers like Karsavina and Nijinsky...
Professor Harold Hibbert of McGill University thought he could play the trick on Nature. An expert in the chemistry of plant substance who knew that bacteria synthesize cellulose from sugars, he called upon his colleague, Professor Ross Frisbie Suit, plant pathologist of Macdonald College, Quebec, for a supply of the bacteria which turns the juices of artichokes into inulin. They placed the organisms in small tubes and sealed the tubes securely to the stems of potato plants. The germs seeped into the potato plant, went to work on the juices and in a few days produced starch-free, inulin-rich...
...from TIME to dispute so eminent an authority. But Chairman Marks is rash to rely on "any whiskey expert in the U. S."; for TIME'S own eminent consultant pronounces that Irish whiskies, being heavier, are less delicate. Question of taste.-ED. Danner Christmas Sirs: . . . Nowhere is the true spirit of Christmas more clearly shown than among the 3,000,000 lepers of the world-sick, homeless, many of them blind, and crippled as well. At 170 lonely leper outposts around this old world there are men and women and little children asking ''Will there...
...overrun Washington is a retired Manhattan lawyer named Edward Bruce. He holds no important portfolio, has no mouth-filling title, draws no fancy salary. Yet he works well and hard for his friend in the White House by giving special advice to the State and Treasury Departments. As an expert on silver, he accompanied the U. S. delegation to the ill-starred London Economic Conference last June...
...Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still is) one of Harvester's most valued directors. He has been fittingly named co-executor of the will of his fast friend, the late Alexander Legge...