Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within the past week, Minister President Held of Bavaria girt up his loins preparatory to running in the Presidential election (scheduled for Mar. 29) for the Bavarian People's Party, while General Erich von Ludendorff, succumbing to the urge of his master, Adolf Hitler, would-be imitator of Mussolini, threw his helmet into the ring for the "Volkisch" Party, extreme Monarchists...
...refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, there is none greater in this house than I, neither hath my master kept back anything from me but tea, because tea is the luxury of the English, and Zagloul Pasha hath forbidden the Egyptians to fall into the evil ways of the idle-worshippers. How then can I do this great wickedness...
...this you did for them, Copey; yes, and more. For some were fired with an ambition to voyage those roaring oceans of the imagination in caravels of their own; and some there were who aspired to master the stops and manuals of this great organ of the English speech until they could send wave on wave of music pealing through the naves and transepts of that most vast of all cathedrals--the Cathedral of the Human Spirit.... And these little flames of talent Copey, the lamp-lighter, tended faithfully (albeit somewhat brusquely on occasion, yet with his Jeremiads over...
...picture of Albrecht Durer as the Bioneor master of the German renaissance was brought out by Professor Oskar Hagen of the University of Gottingen in his lecture in Fogg Museum yesterday...
...some time Manufacturer Ford has been paying Railroad Operator Ford for motor material shipments over the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton R. R. At length, it seemed advisable to double-track this line from Flat Rock to Durban. Mich. To do this, about $1,181,000 was needed, and the master of the D. T. & I. accordingly desired to issue 5% bonds of the line for this amount...