Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edgar Allan Poe, the father as well as acknowledged master of the detective story and murder mystery, have several of his horror tales published in Godey's Lady's Book? Please correct me if I am wrong...
Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, will discuss "The Spanish Problem and the Reasons for It," in Winthrop House tonight. The meeting will be at 8 o'clock, under the sponsorship of the Council of Government Concentrators. Professor Merriman is an authority on Spain, and the author of "The Rise of the Spanish Empire...
...narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...
...against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed as the man who developed diphtheria antitoxin, and the principle of multiple vaccination: immunization against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics, stovaine and stovarsol. Dr. Fourneau, a serious-looking man, when asked how he happened to name his discoveries, always says that he was inspired by the English translation of Fourneau, which is "stove." In 1935, after trying 1,161 sulfonamide compounds...
...Metropolitan technicians-Master Mechanic Fred Hosli, Chief Electrician Jacob Buchter, Master of Properties Philip Crispano-work with the very best equipment, but except for child auditors the Siegfried dragon, for example, seems hardly worth the trouble. This beast requires the services of eight men-two inside it, two to operate the pulleys opening and closing its jaws, one to shoot steam from its mouth, one to shout its music through a megaphone backstage, an assistant conductor watching for the conductor's beat through a peephole, a prompter speaking the dragon's words from the score. It is still...