Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dons in speeches during the celebrations that adaptation to modern ideas rather than imitation of the mediaevalism of Oxford and Cambridge had been the ideal in the creation of the Harvard house system only five years ago. Some of the houses it is true have weekly formal dinners with Master and Fellows at the high table, reminiscent of Cambridge Hall, but on other occasions undergraduates are allowed to entertain women guests to meals in the dining rooms. The King of Navarre's academe does not survive the Atlantic crossing...
...there was the first pilgrimage of U. S. Reds to the feet of the Great Exile. None has a name which makes news in the U. S. Press but in zeal and enthusiasm they were tops,* particularly one Max Schachtman who aspires to write the definitive biography of the Master...
...province of Galilee, where Christ preached. The implication is that this was not in "Jewland." Throughout the new Gospel it is implied that Christ and His disciples were not Jews. Jewish names such as "Elijah" and "Isaiah" are omitted, replaced by "prophets." "Rabbi," as applied to Christ, becomes "Master." Christ, according to Bishop Weidemann, shared the "German Christians' " contempt for the Old Testament because it is Jewish in flavor. Example, St. John, Chapter...
...about his work. Says he: "We do have contact with the rattling skeletons and the filth and the slime, yet on occasion life's most delightful romances and amusing comedies are unfolded before our very eyes. . . ." Actual conduct of the hearings of Case No. 2552 was assigned to Master William M. Davison Jr., a Scotsman, and to Examiners Clinton A. Sowers and George Ross, whose fees in the case are expected...
Ambitious Charles Hayden made it his habit to get to work at 8:30 a.m., systematically budgeted every day's time. Master of every brokerage trick, he drove himself unsparingly through the corporate intricacies of rubber, nickel, public utilities, sugar and oil. He amazed associates by his instantaneous decisions, nettled callers by clipping their conversation short when he foresaw their missions. Partner Stone was silent from the start. Banker Hayden never cultivated an assistant. Until he was stricken last month, he ran his own labyrinthine business by himself, piled up 89 directorships, 58 of which he still held...