Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai, and when imperialism's day was done, the Chinese had inherited the city only to find it a legacy they could not completely control. The greatest commercial center in Asia was certainly not proCommunist; but it was anti-Nationalist because the Nationalists had not the discipline to master Shanghai's half-Eastern, half-Western soul. The city had the energies of two worlds, and the controls of neither. Now world communism, the new imperialism, would have...
...Principles of Rhetoric. No matter how he struggled, young Archibald Henderson of Salisbury, N.C. could not understand it. Finally one day his teacher blew up, slammed the Principles shut, threw the book at Henderson, and sent him from his classroom forever. "In Quackenbos," recalls Archibald Henderson, "I met my master...
Esprit de corps, especially necessary to successful rowing, flourished among the Elephants. In fact, House Master John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, was so impressed by the House crow's zest for the riverboat life that he threw a party for it when it successfully completed its season...
...climaxed ten short years of railroading for William N. Deramus III, who is as big and brawny as a coal passer. Fresh out of Harvard Law in 1939, he started as a transportation department apprentice with the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis, two years later became assistant terminal master. During the war, as an Army major in India, he ran a ramshackle railroad which carried supplies to the Ledo Road. Said he: "After I got through with that line I was about ready to become a truck driver...
...order to become an accredited college, we must have a certain number of the faculty with proper degrees. Smith with his master of science does not fit in. We would like very much to keep Moore and Hyde. Fahy and Mabee, like them, are capable of commanding higher salaries than we can afford. We've given them as much advance notice as possible to help them find other jobs...