That error arose, as you have doubtless perceived, from the lawyer's incurable habit of underestimating the scientific expert.

Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious.

More than once, however, his trenchant criticism of the action of the naval lords had brought upon his head rebukes from head-quarters; nevertheless, so universally was his talent as a naval expert recognized, that to write had never been forbidden him as it had been to certain others.

As we have largely taken our schools out of politics, and have a non-partisan educational expert as superintendent, so it is suggested we should conduct our city business.

In detective stories the attitude of members of Scotland Yard to the deductive expert is that of admiration based on conscious inferiority, but in real life the experts of Scotland Yard have the utmost contempt for the deductive experts and their methods.

Formerly two-thirds of the positions filled by the New York Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations were secretarial or teaching positions; now three-fourths of its applicants have been placed as physicists, chemists, office managers, sanitary experts, exhibit secretaries, and the like.

They were housed in an old farmhouse, chaperoned by one of the Barnard professors, fed by student dietitians from the Household Arts Department of Teachers College, transported from farm to farm by seven chauffeurs, and coached in the arts of Ceres by an agricultural expert.

That is where the mind with a wide universal training has a great advantage over the narrow intensive intelligence of the professional expert.

But Logotheti, who knew something of men, and had dealt with some very accomplished experts in fraud from New York and London to Constantinople, had his doubts about the truth of what he had heard, and understood at once why the usually reticent American had talked so much about himself.

Foreign military experts thought that Kirk-Kilesseh could be taken only after a long operation, and then only by a force much larger than the Bulgars could spare for concentration at any one point of the line.

" In days long gone by the eminent expert in this science had a great reputation.

Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, ingenious.

It is useless to dilate on the other aphorisms, or rather sophisms, which were seriously discussed at the Paris Conference, and which had even the honour of being sustained by the technical experts: 1.

Written by a group of horticultural experts and edited by E. L. D. Seymour.

'But of course this slight list of activity in the cause of science is a very poor showing for the time of our numerous experts; many have had to be idle in regard to their own specialities, though none are idle otherwise.

Now, however, a town site had been surveyed, and plans for the future development of Baguio had been made by one of the world's most competent experts.

The next witness was Dr. Slingsby, the pathological expert from the Home Office who had made the post mortem examination, and who was much too great a man to be kept waiting while other witnesses of more importance to the case but of less personal consequence went into the box.

The latter needs a not universal power of inference which the most sympathetic musical expert may entirely lack.

" "They're better than mere experts," returned Belle Meade.

But I can testify from experience, acquired some forty years afterwards, that Mr. and Mrs. Clemow now keep there one of the best inns of its class, that I, no incompetent expert in such matters, know in all England.

The testimony of factory inspectors, of industrial experts, of employers in England, Germany, France, America, revealed the bad effect of long hours on women's safety, both physical and moral.

If the Serbs had been first in the field instead of the Bulgars, the Macedonian Slavs could just as easily have been made into Serbs, sufficiently plausibly to convince the most knowing expert.

It was brought to another lawyer, certainly no better lawyer, but a legislative expert, who got all that was desired into one section of five lines.

In his opinion "no Indian who was not an accomplished rogueparticularly in the horse-stealing linean expert hunter, able to provide plenty of meat and grease, was fit to have a wife on any conditions.

"] The innumerable reviews of Mr. Irving by literary and artistic experts have left room enough for an amateur estimate by a man who is accustomed to regard human life mainly from a religious standpoint.