Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woolworth car, having finished its travels and peacefully retired to a siding, the Association of Distributors offered the Warehousemen's Union a "master contract" to end the lockout. Main feature of the contract, designed to replace the union's existing or expired contracts with individual warehousemen: compulsory arbitration, no strikes or lockouts until 1940, to prevent quickie stoppages during the Golden Gate International Exposition next year. This offer the warehousemen refused, on the ground that having all the contracts expire at once would precipitate another general crisis...
...personality is the master key to the success and fame of Corcoran & Cohen. Historic is the White House party at which Tommy the Cork, playing his accordion and singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier...
Four satellites, large as our moon, swing rapidly around Jupiter, all keeping the same face towards the master star, but each night displaying themselves in a different arrangement. Sometimes they disappear behind the planet, sometimes they fade into its shadow, or rush in front of it. In 1610, equipped with only a two-foot wooden telescope, Galileo discovered Satellites I-IV. On a clear night they are visible with a good pair of field glasses. Of the five other faint satellites. Satellite V was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard at the University of California's Lick Observatory...
Written by John Meehan and Dore Schary, supplied with data from Father Flanagan, who acted as technical advisor, directed by Norman Taurog (Skippy, Tom Sawyer), Boys Town presents its subject with commendable simplicity. As Father Flanagan, Spencer Tracy supplies a grave paternalism well calculated to contrast with Master Rooney's fantastic swagger...
...wearing hats two or three feet high. Each spring they raise squirrels in their dresser drawers. A common event at dinner is the passing of the "boss" (dessert) from unlucky to lucky wagerers. Sometimes boys will bet a whole year's boss on an election or whether a master's wife's baby will be a boy or girl. Once they smeared treacle (molasses) on the bell rope and the whole school rapturously watched Principal Hoxton grab it. For their misdeeds the boys get demerits, which they must wipe off before they are graduated...