Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backlogs; there were trade estimates that some companies had built up a supply of unissued records for two or three years, that at least a year's supply of new popular tunes was already transcribed in Hollywood cinema libraries. And there was nothing to prevent repressing from old master records...
...graduate schools announcing the award of degrees, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences lead the field, handing out 134 Master of Arts degrees, 51 Doctors of Philosophy, 11 Master of Arts in Teaching, 8 Masters of Science, 1 Master in Engineering Science, and 1 Adjunct in Arts...
...Graduate School of Engineering awarded 14 Master of Science degrees while, in the Graduate School of Education, 26 students were awarded the degree of Master of Education and one a Doctorate of Education...
Died. Samuel Hoffenstein, 57, master writer of satiric light verse (Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A wry-writing favorite of Manhattan's wry-minded literary set in the late '20s, Hoffenstein (who had written, I'd rather listen to a flute in Gotham, than a band in Butte) disappeared into Hollywood as a scenario writer, later explained: "In the movies we writers work our brains to the bone, and what do we get for it? A lousy fortune...
...Fancy Free (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is another Disney movie that mixes cartoons and live actors. The master of ceremonies is Jiminy Cricket (voice by Cliff Edwards), a faintly oppressive optimist who tries to sell the audience on the debatable idea that in these troubled days the best thing one can do is laugh at cartoons and listen to Dinah Shore. As it turns out, one could do a lot worse...