Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Secretary of Transportation was urged again, by Harvard's famed economist and rail expert, William Zebina Ripley. In the course of a lecture at Columbia University, Professor Ripley declared: "Such a Cabinet official would have just the prestige and authority to enforce discipline on the rail industry that it needs." Under the Ripley plan the administrative functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission (locomotive inspection, accident investigation, safety equipment orders) would be transferred to the Department of Transportation while the I. C. C.'s judicial work (rate-making, valuation, corporate finance) would be left as an independent function...
Damp or sultry weather may be uncomfortable for audiences at open-air concerts but it is the ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...
...standard as any other but leads inevitably to the conclusion that lusty Rubens was one of the greatest artists who ever lived; and that patrician Velasquez, who "painted the King's face in precisely the same spirit as his modern kinsman Monet painted haystacks," was little more than an expert technician. The 500 pages of the book are a learned sausage stuffed with much meat. Author Craven has spent three years writing it, studied original sources all over Europe to prove his points...
Wherever Thomas Ross, famed carrier-pigeon expert (TIME. Aug. 11), went, his old brown bird Arthur was indisputably king of the roost, for Arthur had a didactic turn of mind. Expert Ross joined the Army to train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven were contemporaries, but it was long before they met, not long before they parted. In these four essays Remain Rolland, music-lover, Goethe expert, discussed in scholarly but readable fashion their queer relationship toward each other and toward the enthusiastic girl who tried to bring them together...