Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...
...interpreted by Actor Levene, the leading role of Room Service is a brutal assault on most spectators' funny bones. There is the time, for instance, when he and his director (Philip Loeb) have gone 18 hours without food, the White Way having discontinued room service. Actor Loeb, a master of comic finality, declares that he is seeing spots. "No," he corrects himself, ''it's hamburgers...
...about 40 men and women who play good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...
...served him faithfully, once said of Mr. Rockefeller: "Sane in every respect save one-he is money mad." In the past few years, however, Mr. Rockefeller's dominant ambition was to live to be 100. With the same serene confidence in his destiny that once made him master of the nation's oil industry and the world's first billionaire, he believed he would achieve his goal. But last week, as it must to all men, Death came at the low hour of 4:05 a. m. to John Davison Rockefeller at "The Casements" his winter home...
...short time, but the gift of inspiration and ability to stimulate youth, is one that demands much work and practice to at-ain. Since it is the young men who bear the greatest teaching burden, particularly in the sections of the large courses, it becomes doubly important that they master the art of teaching as soon as possible...