Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Dalton, second-highest-paid executive official,* will join a private shipping enterprise. Since 1926 he has directed the Government's fleet of 250 vessels. He rose from an Army private to Assistant Quarter-Master-General in charge of transportation. A year ago the Dalton brow darkened unhappily when a Fleet Corporation reorganization clipped his authority. Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine...
Teachers and other students of education in the vicinity of Boston will be able to secure the degree of Master of Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in several new ways, according to an announcement made yesterday by University authorities. The changes are in keeping with the recent decision to make the degree of Master of Education a work of two years time...
...Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, gives the first of two lectures on "Some New Forms of Public Opinion", under the Godkin endowment, this afternoon: The lectures will be at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. Another visiting lecturer will be heard this evening, when Professor Naumann of the University of Frankfort speaks on "Geshichte des Puppenspiels in Deutschland" in Emerson D at 8 o'clock...
Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
When Louisine Waldron Elder was a young girl, she liked pictures. Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three and a pas-de-bas to the tattoo of the master's baton. Louisine saved her pin money, watched it swell to $100, took her hoard to a friend, Mary Cassatt. Mary Cassatt took it to Degas, bought a pic ture, the first to enter an American collection. "I sadly needed that money," said Degas...