Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clearing weather is forecast for this afternoon's Yardling baseball game against Northeastern's mediocre freshman nine at Brookline. Sidearm specialist Don Repetto is slated to pitch for the Crimson. Gametime...
...Keith Butters, authority on finance and taxation, and John D. Glover, specialist in human relations and administrative practice, have both been associate professors at the Business School for five years...
...desert acres, it brought in a large crew of Americans. There were even high-school graduates to work on surveying teams. M-K found, as it had in South America, that it could train natives for many of the jobs. Now it generally operates with only one American specialist to scores of natives on each job. M-K sometimes has as many as 400,000 local men on its payroll. It leaves a cadre of native engineers to take over completely when U.S. foremen go home...
Author Murray (who now lives in Surrey) resembles another prepossessing Commonwealth novelist, Guiana's Edgar Mittelholzer (TIME. Jan. 11), in the audacity with which she flirts with fantastic characters and odd situations. But Author Murray's chief triumph is as a specialist in African sickness. Her bedside manner is worthy of Chekhov in wit and diagnostic sharpness; in spirit and human sympathy it never departs from the grand old female tradition of the South African novel...
Medicine, said Heart Specialist Page, is still getting nowhere in its attack on heart and artery diseases (which cause more than half of all U.S. deaths). Reason: the foundation of basic scientific knowledge has not been laid. It will take time, effort and much money to find out how and why hardening of the arteries begins and progresses among the world's best-fed peoples. Until this is done, "it is unlikely that the current shocking, death rate from [heart attacks and strokes] will be greatly altered...