Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doell went to the back of the house, entered the master bedroom. On a three-quarter-size bed, on top of the covers, lay the man he had come to see: Dr. Walter Engelberg, 42, secretary of the Consulate. Dr. Engelberg was dressed in an old-fashioned white nightgown, his hands folded peacefully across his chest, the fingers extended. His head had been smashed by three blows. Obliterated were two sabre scars, marks of duels. He had been dead 24 hours...
...Japanese Army gave a general named Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
This answer to a promoter's dream was fine for the rig's inventors: Carl White Jr., master salesman, and Harry H. Franks, master mechanic. Their Franks Manufacturing Co. has sold 35 truck-mounted rigs to date at $50,000 apiece. The rig eliminated the cost ($650-$2,000) of putting up a drilling derrick, paid for itself by drilling 18 wells a year. It also set blond Larry O'Donnell, Shell Oil Co.'s chief mechanical engineer in the Texas-Gulf area, to thinking...
Four Wives (Warner Bros.) increases and multiplies the joys and sorrows of the four daughters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane and Gale Page) of old Music Master Lemp (Claude Rains) in a typical U. S. townlet. This time maternal instinct defeats the considerable ingenuity with which, in Four Daughters, Director Michael Curtiz managed to keep cinemaudiences straight about, and interested in, the doings of four leading characters in one picture...
President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 celebrated his eighty-third birthday last night at a dinner and play given by the Master and members of Lowell House...