Word: experts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take part in conferences which may shape the future of the Navy. There is full confidence in Charles Francis Adams. . . . He is possessed of more knowledge regarding the Navy than any other delegate. When Mr. Stimson and Mr. Morrow enter into an exchange of naval views with such an expert as Admiral Takarabe it is not to be expected that the Americans could hold their...
During recent years Spain has sent the U. S. many an expert musician. 'Cellist Pablo Casals and Soprano Lucrezia Bori led the procession. They were followed by Conductor Enrique Fernandez Arbos, guest of the St. Louis Symphony, Guitarist Andrès Segovia, and Dancer Argentina who makes music with her heels and castanets. This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain's greatest pianist...
...crowds at billiard tournaments are never very big, but Rudolph and Greenleaf had another audience which followed their contest in newspapers and discussed it in doorways-the enormous and tremendously expert audience of U. S. pool players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on a sixpocket table with 15 numbered balls and a cue ball. You must name the ball you want to pocket and the pocket you are shooting for. If you make your shot and knock in some extra balls you may count them too. All other pool games-cowboy, rotation, kelly...
...summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow. In summer they graze on greens, willow...
...Aviation Corporation, $40,000,000 holding company, announced last week the formation of a subsidiary corporation (name unannounced) to consolidate under one sub-president its transport activities, which constitute 30% of all scheduled air transportation in the land. To head the sub-merger Aviation Corp. chose an expert traffic man, James Franklin Hamilton, president of New York State Railways, Schenectady Railway and United Traction...