Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ferdinand Seeger, noted throat specialist, died in New York of pneumonia at the age of 75, closing a career of remarkably able and disinterested service. He was known not only in this country but abroad, and had degrees from 32 medical schools, including his alma mater, Heidelberg. At one time he was decorated by the Czar of Russia for saving the life of one of the Russian Princes; at another, he refused the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York in order to continue his medical work Although he treated many of the rich, he was noted in Manhattan...
...condition, which took twelve hundred years to develop in Greek athletics, has arisen in our own "athletic period" in half a century. The tramp athlete, "fixing" of officials, pot hunters, were not unknown in Hellas. At last the professional trainer appeared and with him the training table and the specialist. To take care of them and the crowds who wanted to see them, huge stadiums were built. The whole system became commercialized...
...City will make its initial appearance today. The purpose of the publication is to provide every week a complete summary of the world's news. There will be 18 separate departments dealing with national, public affairs, foreign news, books, law, finance, and other current topics, each conducted by a specialist on the subject. News from every noteworthy newspaper and magazine in the world will be collected and put into brief readable paragraphs, which will record only significant facts. Most of the articles will be short, though big events involving many facts will occupy more space...
...founders, two 1920 editors of the Yale "News", have collected a staff of young newspaper-men, including three from Harvard, and have proceeded on a basis of "complete organization". Briefly, all popular interests are divided into sixteen departments, such as Sports, Foreign Affairs, Books, Plays, Crimes; and a specialist covers each. The articles will be short and straightforward, easily accessible, giving facts in their simplest shape; and, there will be no editorials. The editors publish their prejudices in the first issue, and thereafter hold their peace. Appropriately, they have christened their brainchild "Time...
...Radcliffe Guild presented last night a very successful interpretation of Shaw's "Pygmalion" at the Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe College. The play was featured by the acting of Miss Mary Sands as Eliza and Miss Janet Fairbank as Higgins, a specialist in phonetics...