Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confirmation of the true arrival of spring, Julian L. Coolidge '96, professor of Mathematics and Master of Lowell House, was seen riding his bicycle around the southwest corner of the Indoor Athletic Building at 6:05 o'clock yesterday evening...
Chiura Obata's father was one of the Japanese artists who did their best 60 years ago to imitate Leonardo da Vinci. Little Obata was apprenticed at seven to a traditional master, spent two years learning to draw a circle and two straight lines. For seven years he was allowed no color. One result of this discipline was a skill which his Sacramento audience found as exciting as a circus. Another result, possibly, was that Obata took ship for California at 18. A good friend of the late great Botanist Luther Burbank, he still gives as much time...
...from Uganda to the French Cameroons. A British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...
Born Barney Isaacs in London's Whitechapel, Barnato became a juggler, comedian, boxer, diamond merchant and eventually financial master of the South African mining fields. He was first a rival and then an ally of the imperious, imperialistic Cecil Rhodes. Author Lewinsohn's account makes Barnato out a kindly, comical, shrewd, enterprising fellow whose great achievement was amalgamating scattered mines and who was overshadowed as soon as Rhodes appeared with his bold political adventures and schemes for establishing a diamond monopoly. Sometimes Barnato's democratic traits popped out unexpectedly (when a society lady asked...
Great Duveneck authority is Woodstock Artist Norbert Heermann, a onetime pupil, who wrote in his introduction to last week's exhibition: "The Painting of our first forgotten master realists, with their courageous technique and their rich, serious tonal quality of simple earth colors, have come into their own again