Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very grateful, but I do not know why I stand in need of sympathy." Said the islanders: "Pardon, sir, but we think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took a whole page in English and Japanese. It was Saburo Kurusu's. Six days before Pearl Harbor, Sheean got home...
Main attraction for the navy yardlings is the 3.2% fire water and cokes that are to be served. They will be welcomed at Kirkland by Dr. Walter E. Clark, House Master and Harvard's one-man Sanskrit Department, and by Dr. Clarence A. Haring, Master of Dunster House and authority on Latin-American history and economics...
...Axis forces had been driven into a great beachhead, about 100 miles long and 50 miles deep. Inside that beachhead, Albert Kesselring had 18 airfields, two cities with radiating roads, many good heights, some fixed fortifications, plenty of guns, and perhaps 175,000 men. He had Rommel, a proved master of battle, and Arnim, an aristocratic technician. And he had orders...
...While the Führer's faith was unshakable ... he was not entirely a person of icy calm, for he suffered too much with his soldiers. . . . There is no genius without passion, and it would therefore have been unnatural if the Führer's will to master the crisis had not been here & there passionately expressed...
Private John O. Scheuermann has been assigned to the enlisted detachment of the unit to succeed Master Sergeant T. Collins, who has been assigned to duty at Fort Knox, Ky. Private Scheuermann was transferred from First Service Command headquarters...