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Word: mastering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Father of His Country was a swell from his 16th year on. He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation. He shone in everything but the successful making of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Washington | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...national song of Mexico. Jet-eyed young José Munoz-Cota of the National Preparatory School (Mexico City) required no further encouragement to launch again upon his famed oration "Bolivar and the Latin-American Peoples" with which he defeated all-comers for the Mexican title (TIME, June 28). Master José's audience understood but little of what he said, for he spoke in purest Spanish. The final oration, by Maxime Raymond Fuel of Nancy, France, was also unintelligible to most of those present though it sounded very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oratory | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life. This man's premature demise was brought on himself by his constant refusal to hear his master's voice. . . . Let us all take a damn fine drink now as we lower John to his final resting place in oblivion. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...facts are true," said Dr. Kammerer's last letter, referring to Dr. Noble's article. Assistants, perhaps malicious, perhaps longing to see their master pleased, had tampered with the frogs. "The work of my whole life has been destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cruel Trick | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inventions | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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