Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of literature, there is no course given which uses translations of the old Celtic texts. Students must master the language or go without the riches offered by other American colleges. To study Irish works written in English, they must take a wide range of courses in English literature, on the bare chance of catching a reference to Burke or Moore or Bernard Shaw...
Very different is the view of W. Y. Elliott, past master of political philosophy and science. "The great feature of Professor Sorokin's work is that he seems to be bold enough to ask the right questions...
Roger B. Merriman '96, Master of Eliot House, who watched the encounter was advised that a Kirklander who had just made a long run was taking History 1. Said Merriman, "Remind me to give...
Muzak music comes from specially made master transcriptions with an audiocycle range far greater than most radios and minus the surface scratching of most phonographs. This makes the reproduction so faithful that hearers can barely distinguish it from an actual performance of an orchestra. Another advantage is complete lack of announcements, commercial or otherwise, to impede its comfortably spaced flow of tunes. Service is 24 hours a day and all subscribers receive a printed program. Network service costing $25 a month is now taken by such Manhattan spots as the Waldorf-Astoria and Childs restaurants and comes in two types...
Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. In this subtly cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also...