Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James P. Baxter, 3rd, Master of Adams House until last spring, will speak at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the New Lecture Hall on "Some Aspects of the American Naval Policy...
Dean of the college from 1921-27, Greenough was also the first Master of Dunster House. He died suddenly at his home in Belmont early Sunday morning...
...artists began to fully master the use of color blocks. Colors were carefully and skillfully blended as shown by "Picking Chrysanthemums" and a much greater delicacy was carired out to an almost extreme degree by Buncho, who emphasized line particularly and gave his figures a very light romantic touch...
Finally Hiroshia is reached, who in the period between 1815 and 1858 became the master of the Japanese landscape school. One of his best works, "White Rain," shows originality of composition and a fine use of atmospheric effects...
...studies the language, tries to under stand the complex religion of "the refined and fortunate and vulnerable land of Egypt," and makes himself valuable to his master by his ability to write and calculate. From the great fortress of Thel, through the religious centres of On and Per-Bastet, on a nine-day voyage up the crowded Nile past Memphis and the pyramids, he gives himself up to observation, impressed and depressed at the grandeur of a civilization of which, as a child of the desert, he has heard only evil...