Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study the problem you'll see that in Belgium, as in so many other countries, Moscow would like to destroy us to our foundations. You know their formula: "Divide to master...
Mexico's Master. Lorencez saw nothing but ragged Mexican, scouts ducking over the brown hills ahead. "We are so superior to the Mexicans in race, in organization, in discipline, in morality, and in elevation of feeling," he wrote the French War Minister, "that I beg Your Excellency to be so good as to inform the Emperor that, at the head of 6,000 soldiers, I am already master of Mexico...
...Lessons of the Master. "To me," Armstrong once wrote, "the key word is-Browning. His has been the master influence." To learn all there was to know about Browning, he often stayed at his books until 3 a.m., got up again at 6. But at midnight Saturday he knocked off; his Congregationalist mother had taught him that Sunday was a day of rest. When the clock struck midnight again on Sunday, he often went back to his books...
...Master's Voice. Dumaine had learned his financial footwork from a master: Boston's late Thomas Jefferson Coolidge,* who dominated railroads, banks, and the Amoskeag mills at Manchester...
...soggy prose and stilted pidgin that suggest a kind of mimicry of Miss Buck's previous work. Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love with David. How can she gain his favor? That she can never be his wife Chinese custom dictates; that she can ever...