Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English theater, a junket to Tibet's Forbidden City of Lhasa, and his days as a Buddhist monk in Japan. He can also spin yarns about his explorations of Peru's Inca ruins and Formosa's head-hunting country. McGovern is a sound scholar withal, master of twelve languages, author of a Manual of Buddhist Philosophy, and From Luther to Hitler. He was one of the boys in the back room of Army & Navy Intelligence...
Although the programs are primarily for students it is hoped they will attract representatives from private firms and Washington agencies to come for refresher courses. Both programs will require a Master's thesis and an oral examination...
...Japs have to use dictionaries to understand them all, and uneducated Japs have trouble with anything more than the headlines (the average citizen of Tokyo knows 600 characters; the average rural Jap 325). Beginning Jap schoolchildren spend 17 out of 22 classroom hours a week in a struggle to master 1,356 characters-time, said the mission, "that might be devoted to the acquisition of . . . useful linguistic and numerical skills, of essential knowledge about the world, of physical nature and human society...
...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...
...finished first was not Nelson, nor either of golf's other two big names-Sam Snead and Ben Hogan-but a new young master from Springfield, Mo. named Herman Reiser. A year ago 31-year-old Golfer Reiser was a storekeeper on the cruiser Cincinnati. He started in front and stayed there until he canned the last putt for a six-under...