Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their tests are negative rather than positive. They can show that a man has not, let us say, the manual dexterity required to be a good dentist, but their tests do not prove that he can otherwise fulfill the demands which dentistry will make of him. One testing expert has told me that a man choosing his career should give but one per cent weight to the results of tests. We believe interests to be the best guide and urge men to put trust in following theirs. For the most part, people shun the things they do badly and concentrate...
...estimate of Brahms as man and artist that has yet appeared in any language," Brahms is presented in credible, life-like drawing.* To gather his material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people who had known Brahms, among them his hitherto reticent Viennese housekeeper. An expert 'cellist. Author Schauffler gives a sound analysis of Brahms's music but his book's big contribution is the masterly human portrait...
...Expert fly-fishermen regard dandified little George Michel Lucien LaBranche as their foremost U. S. authority. His Dry Fly and Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder...
...itself, and no person shifted afternoons from Lehman Hall can really fulfill this specialized function. If the University wishes to make anything more than a half-hearted stab at a problem which it has confessed to be important, then it ought to secure the part time services of an expert in this field. A University can render hardly any greater service than the prevention of misfits; and the helpful guidance of men into the most genial careers...
Washington friends of Professor Auguste Piccard, Swiss stratosphere expert, were startled when he stepped out of an airplane there with his cyclone of hair clipped in a standard U. S. haircut. He explained: "Lots of people always laughed at the one that I had before...