Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be profitable, in spite of their familiarity, to sum up the grounds on which criticism of the colleges is based. The essence of that criticism is an attack on the expert. This characteristic member of modern society, it is seen, has a technique for dealing with certain situations in a certain way. But his course is laid out for him. He pursues that course along a track of definite gauge from which there is no switching. And the specialized scholar is bound by the same chains. He knows the meaning of his facts in only a limited sense...
...known as "The Little Man," did not testify, but kept popping in & out of court to be identified. Snorkey seemed interested in Ries's testimony, caused spectators to recall gossip that gangsters were looking for him since he helped to get Gusick a five-year sentence. A handwriting expert identified Capone's signature on one of the checks Ries said were gambling profits. Up jumped Prosecutor Johnson, spoke his first words of the trial...
...Army scored twice and some of the "townies" who watch Army's home games from trees overlooking Michie Stadium, climbed down and went home. In the second period, Harvard's facile Barry Wood began to throw the passes for which he is more famed than his equally expert tennis, his scholastic rank (top of his class). Crickard caught one of them for a touchdown, White caught another for another touchdown. After the first, Wood fumbled the pass from centre but picked the ball up and tore around left end, instead of kicking, for the extra point. That point...
Earnest Elmo Calkins, 63, famed advertising expert, retired as president of Calkins & Holden, Inc. ''because I have become so deaf that I cannot properly perform the duties of an advertising agent, the most important of which is contact with clients." Mr. Calkins won the Edward Bok gold medal in 1925 for distinguished personal service in advertising "in recognition of his pioneering efforts in raising the standards both of the planning and execution of advertising." His book, Consumer Engineering: A New Technique for Property, will be published this autumn and in future he will devote more time to writing...
...Brothers Gus and Henry had better just work on a salary. Al was the ringmaster, Otto sold the tickets, Charles wrote the mouth-filling polysyllabic advertisements. John, who used to play the bass viol and drive the lead wagon over dusty prairie roads, became the router, the greatest transportation expert in the circus business*. He lost his brothers and his mustache. He absorbed Barnum & Bailey and in time every important circus in the U. S. so that today every trained lion in the country must jump through hoops when John Rungeling cracks the whip. And he has assembled the largest...