Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series was announced to the members of the Homes in a letter from John H. Finley, Jr. '25 associate professor of Greek and Latin, and Master of Eliot House, who described the decreased opportunities for get-togethers as the reason for the move which will bring Associates and tutors before House gatherings to talk on their special fields. A question and discussion period at the end of each talk is planned...
...grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem at all what everyone had expected: a young, heel-clicking stalwart of Hitler's "master race." That was when, needled because his attorney asked him if he had been promised immunity for testifying for the U.S., he stiffened, shot out his jaw and said haughtily: "I may remind you that you are speaking to a German soldier. The United States Government respected me by not even...
Born in Moscow in 1898 of wealthy, aristocratic parents, Painter Tchelitchew fled from the Russian Revolution in 1918. In Berlin Tchelitchew was encouraged by renowned Ballet Master Sergei Diaghilev, is now considered "one of the few great stage designers of his period." But Gertrude Stein discovered Tchelitchew as a painter. Explained Miss Stein, after seeing his Basket of Strawberries: "This is why there is no flower this is why there is no flower in color this is why there...
...time Tchelitchew was influenced by Picasso's Rose Period, assumed the leadership of France's Neo-Romantic group. Later he struck out on his own. Tchelitchew works and talks feverishly (he is a superb conversationalist). There seems to be almost no art he cannot master. This is the source of his strength, and his weakness: for, like a jack-of-all-arts, Tchelitchew lacks the profundity that makes a painter great...
This week, just six weeks to the day after he moved in as master planner for the War Production Board, Ferdinand Eberstadt produced a master plan to get scarce materials to the right war factories in the right quantities at the right time...