Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigorous, compactly built man, Post liked to express his individuality by indulging in cold, water bathing in South Boston during the winter months. His intellectual sphere seemed to know no limits. He was expert in the art and history of the Romance Languages countries, and competent in a score of languages and in other fields of learning
...personal references section of the 39-page application blank has been enlarged and calls for more detailed information about applicants' characters, Monro pointed out. Apparently, the Government had discovered in three years of administrating the program that expert scholars did not always fulfill the ambassadorial functions of Fulbright Fellows...
...week, students found the roster a mighty impressive one. Among the new New Schoolmen were courtly Albert Leon Guerard, 69, historian, biographer, critic (Art for Art's Sake), onetime professor of general literature at Stanford; fierce, fiery Thomas Reed Powell, 70, once Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor...
...experience of two World Wars has proved that an excess profits tax is not an efficient way of "mobilizing the profits dollar" or, for that matter, of capturing unreasonable war profits. Even Harry Truman's own tax experts privately confess that in both wars the tax proved inherently unfair, vastly difficult to administer, and an unsatisfactory revenue producer. Last week Tax Expert Beardsley Ruml told the American Bar Association in Washington that the clamor for an excess profits tax is "a hysterical manifestation of schizophrenic masochism." Nobody, he added, had ever yet been able to devise a good...
...scheduled speaking appearance at Wellesley October 23 and 24 by Far Eastern expert Owen Lattimore set off a chain of protest among some Wellesley alumnae yesterday...