Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President also found time to sit three times for an oil portrait showing him in all the regalia to which he is entitled as a Master Mason of the 33rd degree: silk hat, apron, heavy rings on his fingers. When the picture is finished, it will occupy a place of honor in the Masonic Grand Lodge at St. Louis...
...century, Chiang showed himself much more than a soldier. Skillfully, he played one warlord off against another. He won the confidence of the commercial class, traditionally distrustful of soldiers; the bankers backed Chiang-as the stabilizing force in China. In July 1928, Chiang triumphantly entered Peking; he was master of China except for a few pockets of resistance...
...chief pocket was the Communists at Hankow. They had started north with Chiang, but got orders from Moscow in 1927 to become the Kuomintang's master instead of its ally. Through his agents, Chiang learned of the Moscow orders to Borodin almost as soon as Borodin himself. Chiang moved first. His army scattered the Chinese Communists into the hills of Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces. Michael Borodin escaped to Moscow...
...praising the work of Professor Haring, who resigned last month after 14 years as Master, President Conant said that both Mr. and Mrs. Haring "deserve deep gratitude" for having been "among those who did most to make the House plan successful at Harvard." In his speech, President Conant also saluted the new Master, Gordon M. Fair...
Just before Professor Haring rose to "thank the undergraduates and staff for their continued cooperation," House Committee Chairman William Gold '49 presented the retiring Master with a pair of silver candlesticks and requested "the Harvard parents of Dunster men" to sit for a portrait for the dining hall...