Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundreds of millions in gold, and tens of thousands in lives to place the sardonic Moroccan with his brother, their wives and suite upon the Amiral Pierre. Not six months ago Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother Muhammed were holding the Riffian fastnesses of Morocco against that master strategist Marshal Petain and the best of Spain's (TIME, June 7), after two years of junta-ridden generals. Though they surrendered at last to the French valorous resistance, both Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim and his brother may still boast that they go to the life exile...
Busy little white men, ever ready to oil dark palms, shepherd droves of curious, prying U. S. tourists about the earth, bribe warring Chinese Tuchuns to desist and let them pass, wheedle and bluff their way through situations that would stagger a master strategist. As the Anchor liner California docked at Manhattan last week her Thomas Cook conducted passengers effervesced with triumph at having visited on their Mediterranean cruise a city which was at the time beseiged by some 2,000 rebel tribesmen-Damascus...
...among other events William McKinley was nominated Republican presidential color-bearer. Clippings described the convention. One batch of these clippings was presented to a gawky stripling with the inscription: "To Master Willie Hays, with the hope that some day he may take a citizen's interest in politics." Possibly Schoolboy Hays wrote a thesis on the "Negro Problem...
...William B. McKinley was defeated for renomination in the Illinois primaries ostensibly because he had voted for the World Court. Now, in California and Wisconsin, Senators Shortridge and Lenroot are having trouble in the primary campaigns for the same reason. Out in Idaho, where Senator William Edgar Borah is master, few men can back the World Court and remain politically potent. Frank R. Gooding, 59, junior Senator from Idaho, had the precocity to vote for U. S. entrance. Last week he reversed his international policy, was renominated by the Republican convention* for Senator. Said he: "I hoped this Court would...
...should begin to have their teeth straightened between the sixth and eleventh years. The next congress will be in London or Paris in 1930 or 1931. Prosthetists heard with acclaim that the phrase "false teeth" is to be deplored when "denture" more pleasantly describes the "exquisite creations of the master dentist of today" (Dr. Harry J. Homer of Pittsburgh); that every time a child eats a lollypop "he might as well say goodbye to one of his teeth," and for "every man who habitually eats soft, mushy foods" the human race is one step nearer utter toothlessness.* "Diet...