Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime poison gas expert, chemistry professor at Columbia University, Manhattan. "I did not allude to the Bubonic Plague in speaking of the Belgian fog. I said pneumonic plague. I meant ... an acute respiratory infection attacking the lungs." -Famed J. B. S. Haldane, reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, correcting worldwide reports that...
...produce "for example, a success ful football team." (Columbia College, whence the team came, had but 1,818 stu dents.) A man who has been wondering just what Columbia is producing is Dr. Abra ham Flexner, investigator since 1908 of U. S. and European universities and medi cal schools, expert (1908-12) to the Carnegie Foundation, member (1912, secretary 1917-25) of the Rockefeller General Election Board, director of the Institute of Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld, to open in New Jersey in about two years...
Employee Whitehead who rode his bicycle down the right-of-way to her house.* But she is no expert on M-K-T affairs. Her appointment is not without a sentimental connotation. Railroads usually look after their own (often an executive's wife receives one year of his salary upon his de mise) and Charles Whitehead was well-liked throughout the Katy. Mrs. Whitehead's job is described as helping the Katy in "interpreting the woman's viewpoint," suggesting niceties of passenger travel, perhaps even soliciting freight from businesswomen. Mrs. Whitehead lives in St. Louis, likes...
...Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr advances Wagner's famed soliloquy on the comedy of human ways. Symphonic...
...years ago Mr. Wernette was on a similar commission which inspected the financial situation in Colombia, with the cooperation of A. L. Landman, consulting expert in Government Accounting at New York City...