Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Harvard is a University, it must, through diligent research, contribute its share of knowledge to the world. It must train its graduate students to master the technic of productive scholarship, and to pursue relentlessly the elusive Goddess of truth, but in so doing it must not forget that its primary purpose is the development of the art of teaching...
During my four years at sea, I found that engineers used the Ship's library more than Master, Mate and Steward put together. Often I used to stay awake in my watch below reading Plato, Virgil and Homer, and before I knew it someone would knock at my door and shout '"one bell" which my seafaring friends know to mean "time to get up and report below...
...that he was determined to press afresh the aims outlined in his Madison Square Garden speech last October. In that speech, angriest of his campaign, he had said that in his Second Administration he hoped that "the forces of selfishness and lust for power'' would "meet their master...
After noting the lack of discipline and direction which marked the Republican campaign of 1936, Master Mind Michelson pronounced: 'The party, in my opinion, needs a Mark Hanna, or a Matt Quay." First declaring that he does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous...
...dining room will imitate an English tap-room and baronial hunting lodge. During supper a singer in the red-coated uniform of a master of the hounds will be accompanied at the piano by a girl dressed as a barmaid...