Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual Yale-Harvard shooting match held here on Saturday Yale won by a score of 110 birds to Harvard's 108. The Yale men were entertained at the Hotel Reynolds in the evening. G. N. Lamb of Harvard presided and B. A. Gould, Jr., of Harvard acted as toast-master. About sixty-five men were present. The score of the match is as follows...
...study, with enlarged facilities for all who give special attention to Semitic history and languages. They mean also new opportunities for inquisitive minds to gain in the most agreeable manner a conception of the meaning of the term "Semitic;" to become at least superficially acquainted with some of the master pieces of Semitic art; and, by means of the art and other products, to enter somewhat into the mystery of that power whereby the Semites won their distinguished place in human history...
...three other composers represented, Goldmark, Wagner and Raff, the first may be said to be the pupil and imitator of the second. The dramatic overture to Goldmark's "Prometheus" shows signs of the master hand of Wagner. It was very graphic and rose again and again to such heights of feeling that one longed to know what it was all about...
...Brilliant Failure" is, on the whole, the best of the larger articles of the number. It is a well-told story. It is the parable of the master, the servants, and their talents modernized...
...young emperor, conscious that he was the fount of all wisdom, began at once to assert his superior knowledge over that of his various ministers: and it mattered not that a minister happened to be master of his own specialty. Emperor Wilhelm's notion of monarchy is that all whom the monarch condescends to notice are thereby greatly honored and should in return be entirely submissive to the monarch's bidding. Thus did Emperor Wilhelm turn out Minister Gosler. So suddenly does the emperor indulge his whims that the Berliners call him Der Ploetzliche...