Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirstein, vice-president of William Filene's Sons Company, received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard in 1933, with the citation. "A power for good in his city, ever ready for effort in the public weal...
Until 1927 the School offered the degree of Master of Education for the passing of four courses with honor marks. At that point it realized the standards were not high enough for the training of teachers and administrators and the teaching of educational history and policy. Henceforth it gave a two year course with emphasis on subject matter as well as professional knowledge of education...
...only an illustrator but a writer of children's books, Howard Pyle was followed in both fields by his accomplished sister Katharine, who still "lives in Wilmington. Best known Pyle pupils were Maxfield Parrish, the late Jessie Willcox Smith and N. C. Wyeth. Nearest to the master in spirit, big. burly Painter Wyeth lives at Chadds Ford in a rambling brick house with a barn-size studio, supposedly on the site of one of Anthony Wayne's old gun emplacements beside Brandywine Stream...
Graduated last summer from Harvard, a three-year high-honors A.B., and promptly married, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. grandson of President Roosevelt I, was appointed assistant in history at his university, in whose graduate school he is striving for a master's degree...
...When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened to, the voyage would have ended very differently. Suspicious of Magellan's behavior,, del Cano...