Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Globe and Mail," editorialized the Globe and Mail recently, "has been able to help many men regarded as chronic alcoholics or pathological drinkers. To date at least a score of them of his own age and over can testify that through his personal efforts they have been able to master liquor and boast of total abstinence...
...Maritime Law: An act of the master or crew of a ship detrimental to the interests of the owner...
Today a maturing international competitor at an age when many a great U. S. tennis player has flashed and expired, blond, green-eyed, handsome Gottfried von Cramm stands a husky 6 ft., plays with the sureness and ease of a methodically trained master. One of the seven sons of an Oxford-educated, tennis-loving Junker, he used to roll the courts for his father and brothers on the family estate, Oelber, near the little village of Nettlingen in Hannover. He started to play at the age of 9. Four years later, asked what his plans for the future were...
...sailed westward from Bristol, his destination was Asia, in particular Mecca, which he had already visited. On board the little three-masted Mathew were 18 men. Crammed under her planks were such trinkets, knives and cloths that "heathens and infidels" delight to trade for, and in the master's cupboard the commission by which His Majesty agreed to take only 20% of the profits of the trip...
...gallery for the city of Washington he had designed, Architect John Russell Pope died last week in Manhattan. The New York Times and Herald Tribune carried eulogistic editorials, at once praising and commemorating the era of U. S. architecture in which Pope ranked as a master...