Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Brandeis was practising law in Boston when he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1891. He had been an Instructor in Evidence at the school for one year, 1882-1883, and had been active in organizing the alumni of the school...
...Oxford last week came the first British by-election since Munich. Labor and Liberal candidates had withdrawn to better the chances of the anti-Chamberlain candidate, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 59, famed Master of Balliol College. Widely respected as a "Fabian Socialist," The Master of Balliol offered himself this time as an "Independent Progressive...
...Council, Viscount Hailsham (who served as Acting Prime Minister briefly in 1928), Mr. Hogg is rated one of the most brilliant young lawyers in London. Whether the 30,000 assorted voters of the city of Oxford would take to him and to Munich in preference to The Master and his League of Nations line was an exciting question...
When ballots were counted, 12,363 were for The Master and 15,797 for Mr. Hogg. Said he modestly: "It is not my victory but Chamberlain's." Six more by-elections will be run off in Britain during the next few weeks and at these the public's estimate of Munich will be further tested...
After the regatta there will be a dinner for the 1938 crows who won all their races at New London last summer for the first time since 1916. Robert F. Herrick '90 will be toast Master, at the banquet given by the Harvard Club of Boston...