Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Master Gunnery Sergeant Leland Stanford Diamond, the Marine's Marine and the Corp's most famed mortar expert (TIME, July 5), is back from the wars. He is running the Hygienic Unit (local name-delousing plant) at Marine Barracks, Parris Island...
...months for a picnic, and no beer would be sold at Parris Island for a whole day. Lou's roars of outraged thirst reverberated through the battalions, reached the post exchange just in time. Eventually the picnic went off swimmingly with endless free beer. Special last-minute guest: Master Gunnery Sergeant Diamond...
...First was in Massachusetts Bay Colony, where a few fines were assessed against employers who violated the Act of 1633. The Act set the pay of "master taylors" at 12d. (24.3?) a day, "inferior taylors" at 8d. (16?) "with dyett," also provided that the rates' for unskilled labor be fixed by the town constable and "two indifferent freemen...
...publicly; unduly mistrusting him; allowing the other children to make fun of or take advantage of him . . . especially failing to recognize and report behavior problems in their incipient stage and ... to see that they receive proper treatment. Simple as these techniques are, comparatively few teachers seem able to master them. It requires dogged determination and undeviating devotion to the cause of bigger and better delinquents...
Section A leader Butler, the man who puts a lilt into his cadence, proved himself the master of a situation the other afternoon. The section had been considerably handicapped by another group in marching from the Yard to Langdell and as the rival columns approached the entrance to Langdell, Mr. Butler's command to Section A was "column left, charge!" Section A's marching, incidentally, improved considerably with the help of Butler's rhythmic chant...