Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poet Auslander's chief admiration is John Masefield, whom he calls "The Master Poet. . . . This High Priest of the Commonplace," but unlike Masefield he himself is a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet...
...dinner, which was attended by practically all members of the council, numbered among its guests of honor President Conant and Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics and master of Lowell House. Additional guests were Moses W. Ware '02, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, Edward M. Rowe '27, coach of Debating, and Paul C. Reardon '32, Donald M. Sullivan '33, and Asa E. Phillips '34, former presidents of the Council...
...Assembly, where a small bloc of EPIC legislators controls the Democratic minority, passed the tax bill recently, 70-to-5. Even though a safely conservative Senate was expected to modify the measure, Governor Merriam has come in for a prodigious amount of kicking around by the Hearst Press (whose master at San Simeon would be caught squarely by the tax), industrialists and rich folk in general. Screamed the Hearst San Francisco Examiner last week: "Extortionate and confiscatory taxation will mean . . . devastation of business, paralysis of industry. . . ." Again the motion picture industry has threatened to move out, and assorted tycoons...
...into the dizzy realm of pure nonsense when Tokyo police pounced on a publisher of wood block prints and seized 200 prints of a famed view of Xaruto Strait, done nearly 100 years ago by famed Hiroshige (1797-1858). The print shows a rocky shore line, drawn with the master's delicate and pointed simplicity. Scores of copies of it have long hung on U. S. walls. Xaruto Strait, however, is now a fortified zone. Last week the Tokyo police, addled by suspicion, forbade further reproduction and sale of Hiroshige's lovely picture...
...Columbia University he founded the first student flying club, took the first Master of Arts degree ever given in Aeronautics (1910). He joined the Wright Brothers, became their general manager. In 1914 the U. S. Army Signal Corps made him its Chief Aeronautical Engineer. First thing he did was condemn all the Army's Wright and Curtiss pushers as unsafe to fly. After the War he founded his own company, built the world's first successful amphibian...