Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intended for someone else, contained photographs of vital plans for the defense of Britain. Living on the edge of the underworld, tormented, sinister, frightened, the finder faced a double risk - years before, he had been guilty of the mercy killing of his wife. The Ministry of Fear is a master thriller and a remarkable portrait of a twisted character...
Background of an Opportunist. Of the art of politics John Lewis is a master. No one -except himself- has ever beaten him. Now his switch back into A.F. of L., like his revolt from it in 1935, could be explained in one word: opportunism...
...revolution. The First International had been broken after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871; the Second (Socialist) International had been irreparably weakened by World War I; but neither had committed suicide. And the Third International was a creation of modern Russia's founder, Stalin's master, Nikolai Lenin. Summoned by that greatest of revolutionaries, 51 delegates from 30 countries, including the U.S., met in Moscow in March 1919 to try to unite the working-class movements of the world...
...Bernie Ladd, who manufactures his own carefully tuned instruments and plays solos with Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Like most serious musicians, Ocarinist Ladd is a stanch traditionalist and prefers mud to plastic. He regards the U.S. Army's new unbreakable ocarinas as newfangled gadgets unworthy of a master's breath...
Control of policies in the wartime semi-weekly will be in the hands of a Board of Graduate Editors, which will consist of David M. Little '13, former president of the CRIMSON and now Secretary to the University and Master of Adams House; Donald T. Field '31, another former executive now practising law in Boston; Thomas S. Kuhn '44, former Editorial Chairman; and Mrs. Anna S. Hoke, permanent secretary of the CRIMSON...