Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper correspondent in Moscow, the trick was to write dispatches with tongue in cheek, which the Soviet censors wouldn't notice, but any U.S. reader would. The New York Times's soft-voiced, scholarly Brooks Atkinson was a master at it. Drew Middleton, his chubby, aggressive successor in Moscow, has proved equally adept...
...Shampoo. He. was also a master tactician. He discarded the hit-&-run tactics of earlier carrier raids, and developed the technique of wearing down the enemy's defenses, winning control of the air, and then slugging. Flyers called his method of blasting enemy airfields the "Mitscher shampoo." In their flexibility, his battle plans were a bewilderment to the Japs...
...sued, under the Wages & Hours Act, for time spent in the plant before the whistle blew. (They were required to punch the time clock 14 minutes before the actual start of work, to give them time to walk to their benches, put on gloves, work clothes, etc.) A special master threw out the claims, on the grounds that the workers had not proved how much of the time was actually spent in "makeready" tasks, i.e., putting on work clothes and walking to benches...
Judge Picard overruled the master. He held that time spent on actual production before the starting whistle should be paid for. This the judge arbitrarily set at seven minutes a man, awarded the workers a total of $2,415.74. This seemed a trifle, no more inportant than the puff of smoke that issued when the bottle was first opened...
...Nebraska lawyer, Professor Pound followed his mother into botany in his college days, taking his degree in that subject from his state's university in 1888 at the age of 17. He was granted a Master's degree the following year and in 1897 earned a Ph.D. in botany...