Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that the average man orders bacon and eggs for breakfast. He is a hoary headed old buzzard . . . with the instincts of a young bull ... a master mechanic in the art of seduction...
President Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 frowned down through dense brown kerosene fumes last night as Eliot Perkins, Master of Lowell House, looked shamefacedly at the bonfire he had started. --Harvard Service News...
According to the corporation's annual report, the late steel master Andrew Carnegie's onetime average $6,000,000 annual largess to U.S. colleges and universities, which once constituted 6.6% of their total income, has now shrunk to a piddling $58,000 (about .009%). One reason was that the corporation diverted much of its income to the Red Cross, the National War Fund and international-relations projects. Another was that U.S. colleges and universities are much richer than they used to be. In a typical recent year (1940), their income exceeded $630,000,000. Finally, the Government sources...
President Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 frowned down through dense brown kerosene fume last night as Elliott Perkins, Master or Lowell House, looked shamefacedly at the bonfire he had started. It all began at the Lowell House Christmas dinner when Perkins lit the traditional Yule log after forgetting to open the draft...
...especially to colleges have changed the pattern of U.S. education irrevocably; few hereafter will dare to challenge the right of any U.S. youth to a college education simply because he or his parents cannot afford it. To keep Washington a rich uncle and prevent it from becoming the hard master of U.S. education, Dr. Stoddard recommends that the Federal Government grant to the states $100 to $200 a year for each student between 16 and 20. The annual cost, within a decade: $1,750,000,000. The alternative to such a program, he believes, is something like NBYS...