Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold Killenworth to Stalin...
Today Canada, and the other "Dominions," are held in the British Empire mainly by loyalty and sentimental kinship. In all other respects, Canada is as much master of its own destiny...
Also stressed by the committee was the fact that even at present there is no uniform closing times for the Houses. Despite the closing hour of 7 o'clock set by the Parietal Regulations a wide area of discretion has hitherto been left to the individual House Master, Permission has often been extended to later nights when women were allowed in the dining halls, holidays, and other special occasions...
...education was undertaken at Yale and consequently rather shaky, Svirsky had to start here on the ground floor. He began with Math C this fall and progressed so rapidly that he was able to earn a 97 this term in an unofficial Math Aa hour exam, and take and master a course in Atomic Physics at the same time...
Under this sense-making accounting plan, 1946 profits will probably be eaten up by the $7,000,000 which Douglas expects to spend to develop the DC-8 "Mix-master." To make matters worse, in Donald Douglas' characteristically gloomy view, no one has yet ordered any Mix-masters. Stockholders were not so worried: solid, conservative Douglas Aircraft Co. spends no big money without getting a good airplane to sell...