Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money should be divided among the state, counties, cities and townships. Stevenson called the leaders to the executive mansion and by 2 a.m. had worked out a compromise. On this issue, as on every other, he had studied exhaustively and, as Jack Arvey put it, had become "an expert on every damned detail...
...well known nor widely regarded until last week, Faure, of the conservative Radical Socialist Party, was Minister of Justice in the recent Pleven government. At 43, he is France's youngest Premier since 1893. The son of an army surgeon, he became a lawyer at 19, later an expert in Russian and other Slavic languages, married a literary wife and, under a pseudonym, wrote three detective novels himself. Faure fled occupied France to join General Charles de Gaulle's Free French in 1943, became the movement's assistant secretary general, and came back to win a seat...
Into one pitfall he never fell. For all his interest in racing and breeding thoroughbreds, he was never a pedigree expert, a profession in which two and two must somehow be brought to equal five. "I breed Discovery to Galley Slave," he says, restating the old maxim: "Breed the best to the best and hope for the best...
Before his death in January 1949, Theodore Spencer, Boyiston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, shared the teaching of English 123 with Matthiessen. The course was taken over by Harry Levin, professor of English, but his main interests are not in the Shakespearian field, and an expert in the area was hadly needed...
...attempt was made last spring through a lecture series to find an expert in American literature to replace Matthlesson, but no appointments came...