Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving pictures are a vigorous entertainment medium. There has probably never been a moment in the world's history when more exciting things were going on than in 1939. That Hollywood can supply no better salute to 1939 than a $2,000,000 rehash, however expert, of Rudyard Kipling and brown Indians in bed sheets, is a sad reflection on its state of mind...
Culture-conscious citizens of smaller U. S. cities hunger for high-class music. But few of them ever have a chance to tell a diva from a bettelhooper.* Ordering music a la carte, as music lovers in big cities do, takes expert picking & choosing. Because they want to be sure of the quality of their imported music, small-town U. S. music lovers have long bought it in packaged lots from large, nationally organized concert chains...
...reported that industrial production was about at December's level, although a rise in January would be normal. The fact that public spending as indicated by bank debits showed a marked downtrend, posed the possibility that consumption might not support even the present rate of production. Balance of expert opinion, however, continued last week to term this industrial hesitation a "pause that refreshes" rather than a "lull before the storm...
...Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory to God in the highest," he intoned, "Amen...
...must also be recognized by the general public. For, until it is, teaching standards will remain low, and teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...