Word: master
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Spanish Heritage. The concept of a wife sharing equally in her husband's earnings is a legal heritage from the Spanish and French settlers of the Southwest. The rest of the country followed the English common law, which holds that the husband is the lord and master, and as such owns all family property. But in recent years, common-law states have seen many of their prosperous citizens move to community-property states. In the last year, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nebraska and Oregon have switched in self-defense to the community-property concept...
...Britain last week it seemed as if everyone was as busy as a bridesmaid, preparing to marry off the Princess this month. Each one had his own job. Dr. William McKie, the organist at Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...
...China some 900 years ago, there lived a thin-faced little man with a mandarin beard named Su Tungpo. According to Biographer Lin Yutang, Su Tungpo was "an incorrigible optimist, a great humanitarian, a friend of the people, a prose master, an original painter, a great calligraphist, an experimenter in winemaking, an engineer, a hater of puritanism, a yogi, a Buddhist believer, a Confucian statesman, a secretary to the emperor, a confirmed winebibber, a humane judge, a dissenter in politics, a prowler in the moonlight, a poet...
...Kellogg, formerly associated with Christ Church, conceived the basic idea of the Foundation in 1937 and persuaded Bishop Rhinelander to endow it. Today the organization, which supports itself primarily by donations, boasts a board of trustees including such names as John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek and Master of Eliot House, and Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and Master of Kirkland House...
...Punjab killing ended, or was it merely suspended? Two weeks ago Master Tara Singh, leader of the Sikhs, estimated that the killing would last three more months and that 500,000 Hindus and Sikhs and as many Moslems would die of murder, epidemic and starvation. In another statement, Tara Singh gave this grisly forecast an algebraic twist. He pointed out that fleeing Sikhs (who are richer) had left six million acres of land, while an equal number of fleeing Moslems had left only two million acres. His proposal: drive enough Moslems from their farms to balance the property exchange...