Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoughts are subjected to no rules . . . I can fly backwards and forwards in time and space." With which brave words Ireland's exiled poetaster and throat specialist. Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty, takes off on the umpteenth lap of his favorite circuit-Dublin in the first decades of the century...
Though now a specialist in English history, Owen started late in his field. As an undergraduate at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, he had "delusions of being a scientist," took geology under Kirtley Mather, and changed his mind abruptly after a near-disastrous chemistry course. Graduating in 1920, Owen had earned a Ph.B., which he describes as a "bastard degree for philosophers who lack a knowledge of Greek." From Denison he went to Yale, received a doctorate and became an instructor, but it was ten years before he began to teach English History. "I sort of backed into it," he says...
Horsky, a graduate of the University of Washington and the Law School, spoke on "The Washington Lawyer." Using his firm of Covington and Burling as an example, Horsky said that Washington law has become one for the specialist...
...important for a Washington lawyer now to learn the intricacies of one of the federal administrative agencies, he said. Horsky felt that only the specialist has a future in Washington...
While it is inadvisable ever to let a China specialist get started telling you about his investigation, still the reporting of various vague statements over a long period may well have produced some confusion among your readers as to the facts concerning me. Following is a chronology I circulated to friends some time...