Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check of this disturbing news last week showed that the President had got it wrong-as he often does. He apparently had fallen victim to an old Washington rumor that the dome .was off balance and resting on a crumbling sandstone wall. He asked an expert about it, but misunderstood or misremembered the answer. Actually, the dome is resting comfortably on a substantial granite ring and is structurally sound...
...seemed to care. With horror, the government reported that Italy's domestic wine consumption had fallen from 100 liters per year per head before the war to a mere 70. The cause: high cost of living and a taste adulterated by foreign imports. "Before the war," sighed one expert, "when you went to a country osteria, you found only wine. Today you find beer, orangeade and Coca-Cola." A good percentage of Italy's young people, according to the government survey, even prefer plain water to their elders' wine...
...government's expert on the London water works; he invented a slide rule, a pocket chessboard, and worked on a computing machine. He wrote for the Britannica and other encyclopedias on an imposing range of subjects - Age, Apiaries, Arsenic, Asphyxia, Electricity, Electrodynamics, Galvanism, Phrenology, Solid Geometry, and Syncope. He became a collector of chess problems, dabbled in mnemonics, astronomy, entomology, geography, and geology. In his spare time he also took up botany, and it was botany that led him to compile the Thesaurus...
...microscope is too new to have made any significant contributions yet to medicine. Tests are being conducted continuously, and the results still amaze the experimenters. Operator of the machine is young, good-looking Miss Marian Swaffield, a Wellesley-trained expert in cell biology. She and others are working on projects sponsored jointly by the Office of Naval Research and the American Cancer Society...
Universal's final bow to human interest was a seven minute feature entitled Bear Facts. Set in Denmark, it photographed the visit of two bears to a young girl in a hospital. Some clever commentary and the expert performance of the bears were highly amusing...