Word: master
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reviewing the history of the relocation attempts, the MBTA's "master plan" released in February noted that the Mattapan Square site had not been the authority's first choice, suggested the Penn Central site, and concluded, "the entire matter is now under review...
...been regarded as craft rather than art. Even countries of origin are sometimes difficult to tell. From the mid-16th century onward, pattern books were published showing the latest styles in jewelry, and workshops serving kings and dukes in every country copied one another. In addition, rival princelings lured master craftsmen from each other's shops. It is often easy to see why. The Italian craftsman who intaglio-cut the crucified Christ in rock crystal on one classically simple 16th century pectoral cross incised each rib in the sinewy torso...
...that the Budapest String Quartet has retired, who takes its place as the world's master of chamber music...
Everybody Knew. Despite a boyish faÇade, Curtis knew all about the movie business. He had played Ma and Pa Kettle's ninth kid, he had appeared irregularly on Leave It to Beaver, and he had received a master's degree in cinemaphotography from U.S.C. by producing a documentary on weight lifting. He also had what his friends like to describe as a sixth sense for publicity. The other five did not really matter; Raquel's publicity raced pellmell ahead of her films. "20th Century-Fox billed me as a sex symbol in Fantastic Voyage...
Among the small wonders of the great age of Queen Victoria is the fact that the Queen herself once had a drawing master who wrote The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. Subsidized as they were with honey and plenty of money wrapped up in a five-pound note, the owl and the pussycat went on to achieve that monumental Victorian ideal, a happy marriage. Their creator, Edward Lear, however, never wed, though he sometimes used to talk sentimentally about marriage as "making a nest in the olive trees." It is not recorded whether the little Queen gave so much...