Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should have no difficulty taking care of the men if the hours are extended in the dining halls," Leigh Hoadley, Master of Leverett House, said. Leverett, which was built for 240 men and which now accommodates 368, plans to make room of 360 in September by adding an extra man to all suites but four, with the exception of the study bedrooms...
...weeks ago John Lewis' threat was a gambit in the war of nerves of his soft-coal strike. Now it was something more: a weapon by which he might win unusual gains. The master of strike strategy had made his moves slowly and cleverly. He had been careful not to arouse an apathetic Government and an even more apathetic public against himself-until he could exert the maximum leverage of all that his threat implied...
...Rome, as May Day began, five armed raiders slipped into the radio station at suburban Monte Mario, overpowered attendants, seized the master transmitter. Into the microphone they shouted the Blackshirt war cry, "Duce, a noi!"-"Duce, to us!" They played a recording of the Blackshirt war song, Giovinezza. They declaimed: "Italians! Remember Mussolini made our country great and powerful! We have not been freed but occupied. Slaves, arise and liberate yourselves...
...police, tipped off by agents provocateurs known as antilops, were waiting. Le Maitre was snatched up in a Black Maria. Deprived of their master, the students were soon dispersed...
Mauna Loa was ticking like a time bomb. Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, a rugged old master of volcanology at the University of Hawaii, would not venture a guess on the day or month Mauna Loa would erupt, but according to his charts and records, 1946 is a climactic year in the volcano's eleven-year cycle. That cycle has been rolling along as steady as moonrise since 1832-and probably well before that. When the eruption comes, says Dr. Jaggar, there is a good chance that a stream of smoking lava will writhe slowly down the north side...