Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the saloon car occupied by South African newsgatherers. "In five minutes he had the whole crowd going at the top of its form. It was like a scene in the anteroom of an officers' mess after dinner on guest-night with the senior subaltern as master of ceremonies. Every eye was on the Prince, every face smiling, some with sheer de light, others with wonder...
...second consecutive year the Boston Latin School, of which P. T. Campbell '93, is head master, has won the Scholarship of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The competition is open to all schools of the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college. An important aspect of the competition is that the winning school need not send any of its students to Harvard. The offer provides that the award go to that school of which seven graduates as a team attain the highest average on College Board Examinations embracing the four major fields of each...
Amid a frenzy of monarchial loyalty the German knights elected Prince Eitel to honorary membership in their order, and prepared to elect as Grand Master Prince Adalbert, third son of Wilhelm of Doom...
...which she has had"); inter-related transportation ("Co-operation or unified action by the New Haven and the Boston & Maine should enable them not only to provide the most economic and satisfactory service within New England, but would also in her dealings with outside lines make New England the master of her own resources"); and changed investments ("I am wondering whether you have not been so long in the habit of investing outside of New England as to make it bad form to keep your money at home"). Commerce Director Julius Klein also accuses New England industry of narrowness. While...
Dozens of important men in finance have worked on Mr. Barren's staffs. When they first take a walk with him they feel like Falstaff's page. But he is no antic master, rather always the teacher. Brokerage houses hunt his men, offer them salaries even larger than they get from Mr. Barron...