Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five unexploded bombs were removed, at the end of a long pole, to a quarry near Easton. Charles V. Weaver, an explosive expert from the du Pont works in Wilmington, undertook the risky business of opening them to see what they were made of. With a knife at the end of a pole he undid one package, set to work on another, putting a stone on the top while he cut away
...life of man, perhaps none has been so tantalizing a puzzle to the average citizen as economics. In political matters, John Doe possesses at the least a few principles, a handful of facts, and a smattering of prejudices and opinions to color them. He will perhaps be an "amateur expert" in electricity or mechanics. But in regard to economics he has little information, and that little is highly personal...
...Russia has legalized abortions. Operations are performed openly in hospitals by expert technicians. Russia's maternal mortality is now definitely lower. ¶Very few doctors can escape being begged to perform abortions some time during their careers. Many furtively accommodate the suppliants. But their technique is unsure. Medical schools should teach their students just how best to do an abortion, whether or not they intend to use the knowledge...
...York Fish & Game Association that copperhead snakes were invading Westchester County, the Westchester board of supervisors pondered offering a bounty for dead copperheads. But first the supervisors wrote for advice to Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, curator of reptiles in the New York zoo and famed snake fancier and expert. Last week they got it. The Fish & Game Association was wrong, said Snakeman Ditmars. There was no copperhead menace in Westchester County yet. But a bounty might be a menace. Dead copperheads would be brought into the county, many a harmless milk snake would be mistaken for a copperhead. Worse, small...
...Bridge expert; has affair with sister of brother's wife; age 18; wife left him several times; last time two months ago; wealthy...