Word: technician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aboard the Lutzow, last week, there were few if any "hush hush" conferences among the chemical tycoons; and no immediate prospect exists that an international nitrate trust agreement will be concluded paralleling those now affecting pot ash, industrial chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, steel & copper. The Lutzow party was a party of technicians, and therefore the great U. S. du Pont chemical interests were appropriately represented by jovial, alert Irénée du Pont, 51. Although his duties have been wholly executive for a generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes...
Arnold W. Jones, 24, Yale graduate from Providence, R. I., handsome tennis technician...
Bert Acosta, who piloted the America, until the coast of France was reached, has Spanish blood in his veins, is more of a daredevil and less of a technician than the other members of the crew. He has driven racing automobiles as well as the winning airplane in the 1921 Pulitzer Cup. He taught Canadians to fly before the U. S. entered the War. He served in both the U. S. Army and Navy...
...Irish doctor, James Carson of Liverpool, figured it out theoretically in 1821; and during 1894-95 an Italian, Forlanini, worked out the full, practical method. It takes such beautiful advantage of the mechanics of the human torso that the German scientists listened well to Surgeon Sauerbruch, an especially dextrous technician...
...Philadelphia, 137 miles from Washington where Surgeon Mayo talked, one of these older men, himself a surgeon, made his comments on old age. He was Surgeon William Williams Keen, who celebrated his 90th birthday during the week. Great technician in brain surgery, he has written much on diverse medical subjects; has taught; has fought, in the War. Governments have given him their medals of gratitude, students their adulation. Of old age, he said last week: "It just happened. I have lived a happy life and am fortunate in having made many friends. I love life and I have no sure...