Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...winners of several prizes for last year have recently been announced by the University authorities, among them being W. B. Gardner, recipient of the Ricardo Prize Scholarship for study under the supervision of the Department of Economics. He graduated from Brown University in 1920, and received his master's degree at Harvard in 1921, since then serving as an assistant in economics...
...train had been held up and officials were getting worried, when M. Painlevé called the station master aside and whispered softly...
COMING. During the past week the following men and women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the President Roosevelt (United States)-Peter A. Jay, U. S. Minister to Rumania. On the Conte Rosso (Lloyd Sabaudo) -Giulio Setti, Metropolitan Opera Co. chorus master; singers from La Scala to appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges...
...People were forced to change their views. When that "pallid, hatchet-faced man, small, leaning heavily upon his crutches, dragging one foot helplessly along the ground," took his place upon the Treasury Bench in the House of Commons, made his budget speech, they recognized him as a master of finance and economics, an outstanding Chancellor among the outstanding Chancellors of Britain. Even Conservatives cheered him to the echo...
...Died. Francis Barraud, artist; in London. Barraud painted one great picture, His Master's Voice*, famed phonograph advertisement. He intended the picture for the Royal Academy. It was rejected. He sold it to the Victor for ?100. in 1921, the Company awarded him a life annuity...