Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past Master. In Culver City, Calif., seven firemen on a fire truck dashed to a manhole fire, stood by as their captain, Bob Lowry, put it out with...
Judges for the contest include Cecil B. Atwater, photographer and lecturer on Mexico, and Leigh Hoadley, Professor of Zoology and Master of Leverett House...
Toward the end, before he killed himself, Van Gogh considered his painting a kind of therapy. Writing from an insane asylum to his brother Theo, he said: "I am struggling with all my energy to master my work . . . if I win that will be the best lightning conductor for my illness." That illness was possibly epilepsy, but it has also been defined as manic depression. Today, it might have been given electric shock treatment. As gallerygoers could see, Van Gogh's self-prescribed therapy was also a "shock treatment...
Claude had never won a major tournament in his life, and had no illusions about this one-the famed Masters'. The elite of golf was lined up against him. Baby-faced Byron Nelson, 36, who quit the big-time two years ago because "I found myself playing more golf at 3 o'clock in the morning than in the daytime," was back to try his hand. So was the great Bobby Jones, 46 (now an Atlanta lawyer), playing his one tournament of the year. And there were such other old masters as chunky Gene Sarazen and lean Horton...
...tight softball struggle between the Mastodons and the Bunnies was brought to a smashing climax when "Battling" Bentley thwacked a four-master into center field, turning the tide to the tune of Leverett 6, Eliot...