Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their notebooks in Jimmy's gaslight was Winston Churchill's. In 1893 he "swotted" at Jimmy's for Sandhurst. The headmaster said that Churchill was "able enough, but his mind strayed to other interests, was brilliant at history but sluggish in mathematics and science." The French master wanted Churchill thrown out. But he stayed on and passed his examinations. Other celebrated alumni of Jimmy's include two living British Field Marshals, Lords Gort and Ironside; Prince Arthur of Connaught; the Duke of Gloucester; the late Field Marshals Lords Haig and French...
...forgot the very thing we forgot: in the architecture of American society it's just three jumps from the master bedroom to the doghouse...
...months, as ODT boss, genial, drawling Joe Eastman had worked a killing 15 hours a day to keep U.S. transportation fluid. As ICC commissioner for 25 years he had labored to master transportation economics. No other man knew the subject so thoroughly. And in politics-ridden Washington he was outstanding as a man who kept his mind...
...This week, spry old Henry Ford suggested that the railroads might not be needed after the peace. "With the full development of the airplane," said the master of Willow Run, "I really think the railroad will go in time...
...character as a longtime hard-slugging critic of U.S. ships and shippers. He praised the Liberty as an excellent ship- for its wartime purpose. He saw nothing extraordinary in the small percentage of Liberty ship failures (3.23 reported by the American Bureau of Shipping), declared that ships built by master craftsmen in peacetime have suffered the same casualties. To keep their positions in convoys, the slow (10½ knots) Liberties often must buck mountainous seas while running at full speed instead of slowing down as they would normally do. Overloading with solid cargoes of jeeps and tanks is common...