Word: masterful
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British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
...published in the U.S. (Sheed & Ward; $7). Volume II will be out next year (his New Testament was published in 1944). Some Catholic authorities have long regretted that the job of re-translating the Vulgate* had not been given to Cardinal Newman. In Monsignor Knox they found another master of scholarship and prose...
Painted in microscopic detail, often with a single-hair brush, the caravan sparkles and shines against freely sketched crags. As one critic put it, each tiny figure seems carved in jade. But like many a Western master, Ch'iu found little fame while he lived; his work had been too meticulous for the contemporary taste...
...master had gone back to his own beginnings, match in hand. The 315 pictures he burned, mostly youthful efforts, failed to come up to the old man's standards...
Appointed in 1934 as first dean of the Graduate School, Dean Cronkhite previously served 11 years as dean of the College. She is a Radcliffe representative on the Administrative Board of the Harvard Graduate School and of the Administrative Board handling the joint degree of Master of Arts in Teaching...