Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unusual document had just been presented to slight, nervous New England Captain Joseph Gainard, Master of the Algic. To their demands astonished Captain Gainard made no reply. Then as suddenly as they had quit, the crew resumed work and the 5,500-ton, 17-year-old freighter cleared Baltimore, began its 103-day journey to South America. With the Algic sailed desertion, mutiny, death...
...case, but it is characteristic of Joseph Stalin's most drastic decrees that they are usually issued with a tone of just having learned the awful truth. Last week's decree ends one of the last, most treasured private rights of many Soviet citizens, that of being masters in their own homes to the extent that they have had a voice in a collective which was master. Hereafter control passes to the local Soviet, thus to the party, and the ordinary Russian is now going to find the question of his lodging turning on his political standing...
Died. Dr. Frank Heino Damrosch, 78, musician, brother of famed U. S. Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dr. Damrosch, not so famed as his brother, was nonetheless an eminent musician. A pianist, and onetime (1885-91) chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera House, he was founder, in 1905, of the Institute of Musical...
...close to hanging himself in imitation of an engraving. From his German mother Delacroix may have inherited the responsiveness to Flemish art which showed itself in a life-long admiration for Rubens. His first masterpiece, Dante and Vergil, which was exhibited when he was 24, was described by his master as "Rubens chastened." Beginning his journal in that year, Delacroix scribbled down a daily medley of ambitions, resolves, despairs, descriptions of his casual or palpitant love affairs which would sound like the model diary of a Young Romantic Genius were it not for an extraordinary vein of hardheaded observation...
Chevrolet comes in the same two series as 1937-Master and Master Deluxe. Major mechanical change: new-type clutch based on a diaphragm principle used in heavy-duty railroad couplings but never before in automobiles, said to be more rugged, lighter, easier to operate, engaging more uniformly. The body has a redesigned hood, larger luggage compartment...