Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Khan, Wali of Kalat, cooperating with the Government of India, has abolished slavery in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, remote Indian province. Formerly male and female slaves have been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached an age suitable for slave work. Reputedly, the grand Khan has seen the error of such ways with so blinding a suddenness that...
...Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short...
...portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms, landed from a Japanese gunboat in the harbor, and with great coolness brought 160 Japanese citizens in safety from the city. ¶ At Nanking were killed: one U. S. citizen, the Harbor Master and Mr. L. S. Smith, both Britons, one French and one Italian Catholic priest and one unidentified Japanese seaman...
...last week, "Will the Nationalists maintain in the present hour of victory that unity which has made their victory possible?" Already there are rumors of political dissention in the Nationalist ranks; but last week Chiang Kaishek, surrounded by his potent, mobile, efficiently modern bodyguard, seemed well equipped to master the half of China he has conquered...
...Spartanburg, S. C.) where she took a master's degree at 17. She taught school until she met and married William G. Peterkin, prosperous planter. She put by her plans for a musical and perhaps theatrical career to manage the Peterkin plantation, "Lang Syne," 40 miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes...