Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the League of Nations but, mindful of Britain's promise about "capitulations," gathered together representatives of the twelve capitulatory powers, including the U. S., in the hotel at Montreux, Switzerland where last July the Powers agreed to restore the Dardanelles to Turkey (TIME, July 27). Master of ceremonies was Egypt's ambitious Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha...
...crux of the new reform lies in the setting up of House Athletic Secretaries in each of the seven Houses and in Dudley Hall. These secretaries, together with one Master chosen by the House Masters as a body, the Director of Athletics, and the Intra-Mural Athletic Director will form an Inter-House Athletic Council. It is significant that the House Athletic Secretaries are to be Seniors in their respective Houses, that they are to be paid for their services, and that they are to have two paid assistant secretaries out of the Junior Class. The provision for a competition...
...difference between the majority and the minority of the present Court, he points out, center around the question of whether or not the Court has overstepped the limits of its appropriate functions. Again and again it has nullified the efforts of Congress to master national economic problems...
...Welles) told the radio audience: that the world has watched with wonder for three days this city wherein a newly dead woman has thrice come from her tomb. Emerging for the fourth time the woman speaks, warns the assembled crowd that "the city of masterless men will take a master." Soon a runner comes through the crowd with word that the Conqueror has landed on the nearby shore. The priests tell the people that their gods will protect them. A liberal statesman (Actor Meredith) counsels nonresistance. Before the people can make up their minds what to do, the Conqueror...
...City proved to most listeners that the radio, which conveys only sound, is science's gift to poetry and poetic drama, that 30 minutes is an ideal time for a verse play, that artistically radio is ready to come of age, for in the hands of a master a $10 receiving set can become a living theatre, its loudspeaker a national proscenium...