Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Harry Truman safely back & forth to the office wing of the White House, which he will continue to use, Washington police were installing special signal lights at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Jackson Place. When the President crosses Pennsylvania Avenue, a master switch will stop traffic in all directions...
Brynteson explained that activating the recommendations would be useless, since both bender and Reynolds have already turned thumbs down. In addition, Mason Hammond '25, master of Kirkland House is "unalterably opposed" to parking in the triangle be- cause of the "disturbance...
Then, in a master-stroke of double irony on M. Sartre's part, the party line reverse and the murdered leader is to be declared a martyr, and the young assassin, the intellectual who would be a man-of-action, can never decide for himself whether he killed the leader on obedience to convictions or in a fit of passion. Deprived of the satisfaction of the former and now on the party's liquidation list, he is led off the stage in a fit of tormented laughter as the last curtain falls...
...pinfeathered newcomer to flying; it is already the biggest contract carrier in the world. More remarkable, in the money-losing flying business, it has made money ever since it started 2½ years ago. To do so, it has become a jack of all airline trades and a master of several. Some of its deals...
...avoided much of the flavor of hokum by handling his gunplay as if it were something really necessary, rather than a Fourth of July display. His actors use horses because they seem to want to get somewhere; they come out of brawls looking mussed. Even Walter Brennan, a master of easy tearjerking, plays this one fairly straight...