Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samogitia, Bialostok, Karelia, Tver, Jugoria, Perm, Viatka, Bolgaria and others, Lord and Grand Duke of Novgorod in the Low Country, Tchernigov, Rjasan, Polotzk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Bialosero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Bitebsk, Mstislavl and Lord of All Northern Lands and Lord of Iveria, Kar- talinia and Kabarda and Hereditary Lord and Master of the Provinces of Armenia, Circassia and of the Mountain Princes and Others, Lord of Turkestan, Heir of Norway, Duke of Schlesvig-Holstein, Stoon-mark and Oldenburg...
Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
Leonor Fresnel Loree, President of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., and master of even greater rail systems: "The Holland Society of New York gave me its 1926 medal. In its estimation I had 'done most to promote the welfare of mankind' in my particular field. Upon accepting the medal, I made a speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year...
...each went to various German-American charities. Adolphus gave his Lillie a crown of gold, studded with pearls and diamonds. William Howard Taft, then President, sent gifts. So did his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt; and the then Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite, particular friend of the St. Louis brew master. Everyone sent gifts, $500,000 worth, flowers, $50,000 worth. Adolphus Busch could think only in multiples of 50 that day as squads of relatives and platoons of friends came to his 40-acre flower garden at Pasadena, Calif., to wish the couple felicitations. He, merry and expansive, withal a little...
...Other plays produced this season by this organization: Chekhov's The Three Sisters (TIME, Nov. 8), Benavente's Saturday Night (TIME, Nov. 15), Ibsen's The Master Builder (TIME, Nov. 15), Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman (TIME, Nov. 29). Prices range from 50 cents...