Word: technician
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Occasionally, this legislative technician takes a day or two of rest and goes to Baltimore to see the races. Then the poker face of the Senator is metamorphosed into the Paul Revere of the Kaws; the drooping mustache stiffens, his eyes gleam, the dash of blood from the daughter of Chief White Plume swirls.... And, inevitably, the senior Senator from Kansas returns to his caucuses...
None but an exceptionally feeble technician would pick as a championship eleven the Harvard team, coached by Arnold Horween, which wavered before some men from Geneva College and bowed down to the score 16 to 7. A huge Geneva back named Fleniken did most of the damage. Fleniken and his friends were coached by Harvard's old acquaintance, "Bo" MacMillan of Centre College...
Broadway. Into a poorer-than-average season strode the first unqualified success, Broadway, by Phillip Dunning, newcomer, and George Abbott, experienced collaborator, stage technician. Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness...
...about facts. He knows them, knows how to get them and, when found, to reduce them to figures, and knows how to interpret those figures to attentive businessmen. Secretary Hoover brought him from Buenos Aires, where he was U. S. commercial attache during 1919 and 1920, to be his technician, his Ariel. People who think that every Jew is a commercial genius and vice versa every commercial genius a Jew have long believed Dr. Julius Klein a Jew. He is a Republican Protestant, born to Frederick and Katherine (Giebenhain) Klein at San Jose, Calif., in 1886, married to Dorothy Bates...
...Dick started to hunt for the germ of scarlet fever with hopes of developing a cure and a preventive. His own money income was meagre. He could get no supplement from institutions. So his wife, Dr. Gladys H. Dick, who has long been his coworker, found a job as technician in an Evanston, Ill., hospital, earned enough money to buy them laboratory supplies, scrimped over their household expenses. They found their germ and two years ago perfected their technique of cure and prevention. Topping this, to them satisfactory reward, the immunologists, bacteriologists and pathologists meeting in Albany recommended by secret...