Word: master
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Another major change in the honorary degrees lies in the grade of award accorded. Once the master's degree--the M.A.--was given more often than the doctorate, and until the Revolutionary War, honorary M.A.'s outnumbered any of the types of degrees. On Thursday morning, however, the newly-recognized doctors will far outnumber those receiving an M.A. diploma...
Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. The party is old, but the guests still sit entranced by a master conversationalist...
Died. Sir David William Bone, 84, British master mariner who went to sea at 15, commanded troopships under fire in two wars (last to leave the torpedoed transport Cameronia in World War I, he grabbed the stay of a destroyer alongside as his ship sank), wrote several books about the sea (The Brassbounder, The Queerfella); in Farnham, England...
...servant to an old man named Knott, but his duties are vague, and he and his master have never exchanged a word. That is Author Beckett's way of showing the measureless distance between man and his fellow. But Watt's distance from himself is even greater. Not for him the prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats...
...twenties. A handsome man with sandy brown hair, Bevington has been recommended for appointment as an Instructor in English, to be effective July 1, and he will receive his Ph.D. this month. He is a non-resident tutor at Kirkland House. His wife, a pretty brunette, has her Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Radcliffe and is now working toward a Doctorate in Education at the School of Education, where she is a teaching fellow...