Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
...Baudelaire, in spite of arduous anc meticulous polishing, was not a skilful nor always successful prosodist, and his vocabulary was comparatively small. Gautier, his master, wrote better verse. Anc Joris Karl Huysmans, his disciple, was more artistically erotic...
...question of whether Harvard needs publicity. The question is can are ailed to do without publicity? Donations she can but at a price which is prohibitive. The Harvard Athletic Association far from being the stave of the press by treating it intelligently has become in a sense, its master. And it is high time that University Hall stopped quaking at the thought of a reporter and having nothing to hide come out in the open...
...first of these grants, the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in Greek Studies for the year 1929-30 on the basis of a thesis written on a subject in the field of the classics. Way gained his master's degree at Harvard in 1926, and is now pursuing work in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The David A. Wells Prize in Economics was won by John Van Sickle 21, for an essay entitled "Direct Taxation in Austria 1918-1923". Van Sickle got his bachelor's degree in 1927 at Cornell before coming to Harvard to study...
...occurred over that long period, but it is easy to conjecture how many unrecorded events took place on this restricted but fascinating area. In 1653 John Betts who lived on the Holyoke-Winthrop corner was tried for murdering his servant with a plough-staff. We can imagine the master's feelings when, although not found legally guilty, he was made to stand at the gallows for an hour with a rope about his neck, and then submit to a severe whipping...