Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After graduation, Humphrey went to Louisiana State University as a graduate student and instructor, wrote a master's thesis on "The Philosophy of the New Deal." (Henry Wallace, reading it years later, commented: "Humphrey, you get an A on this...
...deficiencies. All humans, say the geneticists, have about the same genetic potentialities. Individual deficiencies come from defects of culture, early nutrition, etc. But such details of accepted science are not likely to be expounded by Soviet propagandists. Western genetics (primacy of heredity) can be made to sound like a "master race" doctrine, and Lysenkoism (primacy of environment) can be made to sound like light and hope-out of Soviet Russia...
...more recent years, the royal family has not shared Victoria's suspicion of homeopathy: twelve years ago the top-drawer job of physician to the King went to genial Homeopath Sir John Weir. Weir, a white-haired, white-mustached master of the jolly bedside manner, shares honors with Lord Horder and Sir Maurice Cassidy. But in practice, Weir has been the man who actually looked after George VI and his family...
...more mature rasp before it gets annoying, and by the time the show is over he is stealing an occasional scene from his elders. Given his fantastic American-Canadian-English lines that come up with such expressions as "jolly swell," Van Patten doesn't waste a syllable and is master of the double take. He has the difficult duty of acting a ludicrous person with a concrete and serious problem and he performs it without slipping into schizophrenia...
...Mozier, the victim, eluded the malefactor and fled into a nearby house to call the police. She is the daughter of Julian L. Coolidge '95, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, and former master of Lowell House...