Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general. President Harding despatched him and ExGovernor General Forbes to the Philippines to make a complete survey and report on conditions. The Wood-Forbes report recommended, among other things, "that the present general status of the Philippine Islands continue until the people have had time to absorb and thoroughly master the powers already in their hands," and "that under no circumstances should the American Government permit to be established in the Philippine Islands a situation which would leave the United States in a position of responsibility without authority." General Wood and Mr. Forbes, competent observers and students do not think...
...recognized party regime. Italy has discovered a man. "The right man for the emergency" is a phrase quoted by habitual optimists. Like all such phrases, however, it frequently fails to hold true. To be sure, above the turbulent noises of war some fortunate countries heard the voice of a master. With the British armies reduced to the most extreme danger from lack of shells. England, appalled at the vastness of the problem baulked at the undertaking till she found, in her recently rejected Premier a breadth of vision and a driving force to inspire her disunited industrialism and in turn...
Perhaps some critic of the next century investigating the dusty worn volumes of today will discover a master piece which has escaped unsuspected. "Tales of the Jazz Age" may turn out to be a second "Decameron" or "Conles Droliques"; "Java Head" another "Moby Dick...
...Fogg Art Museum is now exhibiting in its Gallery two paintings of unusual interest and beauty--one a portrait by the great German master, Hans Holbein, the other, a Madonna and Child and Angels, of the XIVth, century Sienese School...
...give interest to an only fairly interesting first movement; it was the last movement that stood out as a wonderfully ingenious piece of ground-bass work, losing none of its beauty through its ingenuity; the amazingly fine work in this movement certainly confirms the statement that Brahms is the master of variation-form...