Word: authority
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...later educated as a mechanical engineer. He constructed the government sea-wall around Governor's Island and another at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. He also laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Mr. Smith is also well known as an artist and as an author. He has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmauyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo...
...Smith was educated as a mechanical engineer. He built the Race Rock lighthouse off New London and laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. He is also well known as an artist and an author. His landscape work in water-colors and charcoal have been awarded medals at several expositions and by many art societies. Mr. Smith has written some delightful short stories, the best known of which are "The Under Dog," "The Wood Fire in No. 3" and "Colonel Carter of Cartersville...
...Gilbreth is one of the few contractors who issue contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...years' service in this position, Professor Toy received from Harvard in 1880 appointments as Dexter Lecturer on Biblical Literature and Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. The former position he held until 1903, the latter he will hold until his resignation takes effect. Professor Toy is the author of several works on the Bible and its interpretation...
...first managing committee of the American School or Classical Studies at Athens, and is honorary president of the Archaeological Institute of America, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of the British Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Professor White is the author of numerous school and college textbooks and monographs on philological and archaeological subjects...