Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole duty of airplanes is now made manifest, in 52 folio pages, compiled, examined and approved by expert engineers, designers and men of the air. Last week H. M. Crane, General Motors technician and chairman of a joint committee of the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the Society of Automotive Engineers, announced completion of the "aircraft safety code." A five-year labor, the code includes regulations for the design, manufacture, testing and operation of all types of craft, qualifications for pilots, traffic rules...
...present defective state of the art of setting examinations leads to an over-flourishing condition of the art of passing them--by means of methods foreign to the true purposes of education. The seeker of grades is a technician of the first order. Machiavellian attention to insignificant detail, introduction of quotations purposely memorized and designed to convey the impression that the writer could quote with a similar facility on any given subject, and a host of other tricks;--the pursuit of grades is often conducted with an insincerity which accounts in no little measure for the disrepute in which they...
...everyone in the U. S.-the story of how Mathewson, after one brilliant season with Smith's Norfolkers, was bought by the New York Giants, how he had perfected his famed "fadeaway," studied the personal weaknesses of every batter who opposed him, become recognized as the master baseball technician...
...glory that is grease; worshippers, gazing upon them in the Grand Central Galleries, thought of the famed eggs of history−of Humpty-Dumpty, of the egg of Columbus, even of the fabulous, the cosmic, Egg. For this is the magic of Artist Fechin. He is a superb technician. His command of brushing, of absolute color, is masterly. He deceives the eye, some- times for a minute at a time, into mistaking for a great painting a work which is in reality "no more creative than a virtuoso's playing of a Chopin minuet...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall a concert of piano music by Josef Hofmann, flawless technician and thorough artist. He will play a Beethoven Sonata (Opus 111) and selections from Schumann and Chopin...