Word: master
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard sports lore is full of stories about Barnaby, or "The Master," as the squash cognoscenti often say. Like the time he rebuilt the post-war squad in one year, leading them to a championship the next. Or his dramatic finale as squash coach, when his Crimson racquetmen toppled heavily-favored Princeton, 6-3, to cop yet another national title...
...Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing shutting down for lack of students and money? Well-qualified applicants are still plentiful here. We are simply moving with the times to change our 106-year-old diploma nursing school into a three-year master of science program for non-nurse college graduates. Anticipated result? The theoretical strengths of university-level instruction plus the solid clinical experience we have traditionally offered...
...Duke of Edinburgh, Mountbatten's great-nephew and nephew, walked behind the casket, their faces taut with grief. So did a group of comrades who survived the 1941 sinking off Crete of the H.M.S. Kelly, captained by Mountbatten. His aging black charger Dolly, riderless with its master's burnished boots reversed in the stirrups, was also in the procession...
...divided by the number of shares outstanding. Thus it is much cheaper to buy out a company than start a new one. Stock prices are also depressed relative to alternative investments in tangibles. In the twelve months to June, the value of silver rose 63%, gold 55%, old master paintings 22% and housing 14%; meanwhile, the Standard & Poor's composite stock index posted an undistinguished 5.3% gain...
Atlanta's Phil Niekro, who helped his brother master the knuckler, now watches his success with wistful pleasure: "It's great that we're both having good years, but I'd like to play on a contending club, feel what it's like to go into a clubhouse every day and know you're going to be in the thick of a pennant race." The experience, Joe says, is so good it's almost like the old days in the backyard. "Pitching for me now," says Joe Niekro, "is just like going...