Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book The Old Man and the Sea: ". . . I wanted to write it for many years and finally did it instead of putting it off. Putting things off is about the worst thing you can do and I do plenty of it. If you ever need any advice from an expert on putting things off, I'm your man . . . You need to know almost all there is about your craft, or trade, or whatever you want to call it, to be able to do it. Then you need a lot of luck. I had a lot of luck writing this...
When Dwight Eisenhower asked Robert Chapman Sprague to serve as Under Secretary of the Air Force, the choice seemed a good one. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (1920) and a Navy construction expert before he entered private business in 1926, Sprague had served on many a Government- industry committee, knew his way around a bureau. He bustled down to Washington a week before inauguration, spent more time learning his job than any other Defense Department nominee...
...Track expert Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt offered a reason for the healthy economic condition of horse racing: "The mutuel ticket is the only thing that has not gone up in price. It still sells...
...keep his cellars just right and to make sure that the paneled Common Room would glow with good wine and talk. When he wanted to know the proper temperature for a wine or when it should be decanted, he was not satisfied with the opinion of only one expert. He wrote to ten, averaged up their answers and acted accordingly. Nor did he trust the accuracy of only one thermometer. Each week he faithfully took the average reading of three...
After the intermission, the second act began with an explanation of psychic powers by an "independent expert," Professor Sanjean, owner, trainer, and confidante of "Emir, the only dog in the whole world who can read your mind." Sanjean told the audience that the "only reason telepathy isn't more widely recognized is that peope are on different wave-lengths." This meshed nicely with the assurance Bey's interpreter gave before the program that the "astral, or soul body is the force that binds the chemical body to God. And Bey, by completely mastering the astral body, loosens the silver chord...