Word: master
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great tactician, master of defensive warfare, Galahad of the South, glided out his life as president of Washington College, where he taught duty and planted trees. At his death, it reverently changed its name to Washington...
...full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics as a career. Speech-making thereafter became his "relaxation...
...count, the temperature and respiration rates were the same. They had the same temperaments and attitudes of mind. Accused of cheating in an examination because they had made the same mistake in the same problem while the rest of their papers were identical, only the statement of the form master that they were at opposite ends of a long hall and could not possibly have conferred vindicated them...
Arthur Spindler, a mechanic, no longer young, was Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War and worships the air his master flies...
...member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come the foremost U. S. promoter, inter nationally, of a foremost U. S. art (the fast message...