Word: masterfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago in 20 hours, ended his week in Dallas. With reserve strength needed for a dozen more cities, including visits to Disneyland, SAC headquarters and a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, Baudouin took a day off, enjoyed a relaxing round of golf, matched grooved swings with Old Master Ben Hogan. No one kept score...
...crux of the matter is whether the residential College is willing to sacrifice a little convenience to make the commuter's education for more valuable. Commuting has become a convenient way to add flexibility to the enrollment, but it should also, as Master Leighton points out, be a real educational opportunity. If the College hopes to attract more able commuters, it must make them something more than visitors to classes, and it must take them out of their separated facility and bring them into the College...
Looking down on the ocean from the Presidio, San Francisco's history-encrusted Army post, Master Sergeant Leo P. Day saw what happened next. "I could see the boy in the foaming red water, shouting and signaling someone to 'go back, go back.' Then I saw the girl, swimming toward him, completely ignoring his warning. It was the greatest exhibition of courage I have ever seen...
Points of View, by Somerset Maugham. Five essays in the tone of a master yarner chatting over ancient brandy...
Usually two professors and no more than 14 undergraduates attend the gatherings, which have been held twice weekly for several weeks. No special dinners are prepared, but students and guests meet before dinner for sherry provided from the House's Ford Foundation funds by Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House...