Word: expertizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week another jam project was under way near New York City, in Toto's Green Haven Inn, founded in Mamaroneck by the late famed circus clown. Mixed aplenty, Sunday-afternoon sessions were open to any expert jazzman. Four Sundays of it had built a typical jazz following, equal parts suburban jitterbugs and reverential male grownups. In every audience there was at least one know-it-all who bothered the players with technical questions, and one high-school editor who inquired: "Do you think real jazz is on the decline?", whereupon everyone grabbed for his drink...
...Cleveland, a luncheon club invited a memory expert to give an exhibition. He forgot to come...
...gadgeteer. Once he fixed a radio after an expert had tinkered in vain eight hours. He wins photographic contests, chats over the radio incognito, and is often to be seen testing the country's roads in the saddle of a motorcycle. When he finds a bumpy stretch, he gives the local boss holy hell...
...Inoceramus pearls were found in western Kansas in 1935 by George Fryer Sternberg of Fort Hays Kansas State College. Since many other fossil pearls had been previously discovered, the college museum did not pay much attention. Recently Sternberg shipped his stony, lacklustre treasures off to the Smithsonian for an expert appraisal. The Smithsonian's crack Paleontologist Roland Brown examined them with enthusiasm, dashed off a scientific report, last week pronounced them the finest fossil pearls, for size and shape, ever collected...
...written work. To correct papers intelligently, and to give undergraduates valuable advice about their preparation, a rare brand of assistant is required. With departmental budgets declining and the College saddled with straight-jacket tenure rules, many would-be teachers probably will not stay here long enough to become expert and experienced instructors...