Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Dumbarton Oaks faculty will teach at the College next semester a fine arts course will be given by the Byzantine expert Father Francis Dvornik, professor of Byzantine History, who recently came to the U.S. after fleeing the Communist government in Czechoslovakia; and Granville Downey, associate professor of Byzantine Literature, will teach the "Eastern Roman Empire to Justinan...
...garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
They frequently disagree-at first. George, the self-taught expert on finance, usually holds back, raises the practical obstacles, demanding: "If we do this, where's the money to come from?" John, the bold empire builder, is always tugging ahead, might overreach himself but for George...
...About Eve. An expert, high-comedy examination of Anne Baxter's climb, over the bodies of Bette Davis, George Sanders and others, from obscurity to Broadway stardom (TIME...
...carelessness or snobbery, are maiming the English language. In The Prevention of Literature he baits, hooks and dries the doublethink Communist intellectuals. Unlike most American criticism, which is written in a weird graduate school code, Orwell's literary essays are directed, without condescension or pedantry, to the non-expert who reads for pleasure...