Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martha's Vineyard Rod & Gun Club voted to find him a mate, appealed to Professor Gross. Dr. Gross had recently returned from Wisconsin where he studied prairie chickens (Tympanuchus americanus), found them so similar to the heath-hen (Tympanuchus cupido) that no eye less sharp than an expert's could tell one from the other. Both are pinnated grouse. A prairie chicken, thought Dr. Gross, would make the heath-cock a very good mate indeed. The State of Wisconsin agreed to ship a few prairie chickens, New York sportsmen agreed to bear the cost; Dr. Gross agreed...
...impost was good for them. Mr. Hearst sent a congressional junket to Canada to study the 4% Sales Tax there (TIME, Nov. 30). The idea was put before the Ways & Means Committee by his spokesmen when it was drafting the revenue bill with advice from an imported Canadian expert (TIME, March 7). Scant hearings were held. The rank & file of the House membership were not consulted. The Treasury made no recommendation. The committee put the tax into its bill simply because it appeared to be the easiest and handiest method of raising cash...
...entrance into the London Zoo six days a week. "No proof of achievement of any kind is required of the individual who wishes to break into these scientific circles. . . . But the degrees look lovely, in a row, and to the unsophisticated they imply a lot." The leader gets an expert publicity man, "who works on a commission of anything from 20% to 40% of the funds finally collected" from the public. That leader's "entire claim to fame, perhaps, rests on his once having made a trip to the Arctic as mate of a whaler." But he poses with...
...expert puppet manipulator whose fingers are reputed to be unusually deft with the strings is giving the miniature vaudeville under the auspices of the division of Music for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony. The four acts to be presented are "The Two Beans", "A Korean Legend", "The Rabbit Ballet", and "The Punch and Judy Waltz". In "The Rabbit Ballet" four characters appear on the stage simultaneously, an unusual feat...
Johnson had considerable wrestling experience at school before the entered Harvard, and rapidly developed under Coach Gallagher's expert tutelage. He will not go up to the New England Intercollegiates, as none of the men he wrestled in the Yale meet are entering the meet. Due to the fact that the National Intercollegiate bouts are being held in the mid-west this year, no Harvard men will compete in them...