Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Norris-"Two-gun Norris who gets his man," "Norris, the Texas bear-cat," the most Fundamental in the most Fundamental of all Baptist communities. He is the publisher of The Searchlight, a paper with scare headlines and such "leads" as: "Judas Iscariot, when he betrayed his Lord with 'Hail, Master' on his lips, went and hung himself, but these modern Judases continue to occupy pulpits and use the name of Christ and live off the money of orthodox people." Now, under ordinary circumstances, Mr. Norris would show as much love for a High-Church Bishop as for the Pope...
...romantic background, a background that is reflected in every word he writes, in the lilt of his voice, in the motions of his hands, in the occasionally fiery manner of his conversation. He was born in the town of Longford, in the Irish midlands, where his father was master of the Workhouse. From earliest childhood, he says, he was interested in wayfarers and vagabonds?and he says to his father's place came all the tramps, ballad-singers and strolling musicians of Middle Ireland. This, and his later life in County Cavan, in a place where there were still traditional...
...selection of teachers. The demand for highly trained teachers exceeds the supply. Colleges now accept as instructors candidates having only the degree of Master of Arts. A decade ago, a candidate had to have a Doctor's degree...
...party of research students from the Musical-Historical Institute of Vienna, who had come to study the musical archives of the convent, unearthed a composition in manuscript, entitled Symphonic in C-dur, nr. 221, Von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It proved to be a tuneful, sunny piece, composed by the Master in Vienna, according to experts...
...restrained. It is a model, in fact, for the perfect politician. Having extricated himself from his party caucus, he was not bound to efface himself when his opponent received the nomination. And when an appeal to his party loyalty was made, to effect his withdrawal, his reply was a master-piece. M. Doumergue observed that he had never advanced his own candidacy, and that he declined to ask his friends to refrain from voting for him. His appreciative friends seized the opportunity to win him a decisive victory...