Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concentrator in geology speedily realizes that to become a master in this science, he must later enter a graduate school. Promotion in a geological survey or in collegiate teaching, or in a technical staff or a mining corporation is most likely to be rapid for holders of a doctor's degree in geology. It may be pointed out that men who have concentrated in physics or chemistry are best fitted to become professional geologists. Their real specialization would begin in graduate school, and their mastery of geology would become all the more certain because of the deeper knowledge...
...summary, college concentration in geology gives an admirable training for most men who do not intend to be geologists, but who do wish to learn to think straight and to master their future professions. Concentration in geology is of value to those men who need to make a broad canvas of the field before adopting the important question of adopting geology as a profession. Such men are recommended to seek expert advice in distribution and in the election of "free" courses. With such guidance every man will be assured of a sound, education, a suitable preparation for any professional school...
...master of the puddle...
Bearlike Artamonov Sr. becomes almost lovable during his invasion of the town of Dryomov, with hia masterful bluntness, self-assurance, genuine humility, faith in work; his crude affection for his sons, his bold carnality. Pyotr, the eldest son, is no less stupid than his father except that he knows he is stupid. His endless wondering about the right and wrong of things is what undoes him. Did he kill the clerk's nasty little boy by accident, he asks himself, or in malice, or to save his own son an evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred...
Simultaneous with this news, celebrations reached their climax for the centenary of the death of a music master whose affliction was even greater, for a musician, than blindness. Ludwig van Beethoven was bodily sound but became stone deaf. As his hearing dwindled, his conducting, which he would not give up, became more and more ludicrous. He would bend over his keys to hear what he played until his orchestra quite lost sight of him. At the crescendoes he could and would straighten up, crouch up, stand up, finally leap up off the floor itself in passionate release...