Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police suggested the Bureau of Standards and the Bureau of Standards referred them to the Bureau of Mines. The Bureau of Mines thought the bomb should be opened at the Naval Research Laboratory. At the laboratory a squad of marines fired several rifle bullets into the box. Then an expert, working with mirrors and long implements from behind an iron shield, pried the lid open. They found the box packed full of small white tablets. Next day Claudius Hart Huston, onetime G. O. P. chairman, revealed that he had sent the tablets?a new form of concentrated heat?on behalf...
...reading him you would have to admit yourself mistaken. Though not always graceful he is an agile writer, an anecdotalist of parts and humor, of quite un-British charm. Return to Yesterday is not just another old codger's autobiography. To read it is like being monologued by an expert. Author Ford, though gossipy, is also old-fashioned in his reticences, apologizes for not being even more so. "I have tried to keep myself out of this work as much as I could?but try as hard as one may after self-effacement the great 'I', like cheerfulness will come...
Lucidity, Everyone who presents a paper before the A. A. A. S. must deal with Austin Hobart Clark, longtime expert for the Smithsonian Institution on oceanography, sea life, birds and bugs, onetime aide-de-camp to Louis, oceanophilic Prince of Monaco. Mr. Clark is director of the A. A. A. S.'s press service. He must make certain that facts are fit to print. Few men with technical education can express themselves lucidly. From Mr. Clark they learned that "manuscripts and abstracts should be written in the simplest possible language, and in such a way as to be under stood...
...announced the teacher of prodigies ahead of time, "is no prodigy." Rolf, a grave, curly-haired child, would like some-time to be a concert artist like his father's pupils, Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin. But he plays now in a sturdy, forthright fashion more illustrative of expert teaching than of inspiration...
...Woman?" You may be surprised to discover that this is a quotation from the late great Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche himself. But you will be more surprised that it takes Author Herrick's hero 371 pages to find the answer. Psychiatrist Redfield met Abnormal-Psychology Expert Massey at a murder trial. Redfield was a man; Massey a woman; both were middle-aged (in fact, grandparents). They fell in love: or at least Redfield thought they did, for Dr. Serena Massey became Dr. Redfield's mistress. Redfield's wife was dead; so was Serena's husband, but Serena...