Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total enrolment for the year reached 529, the highest figure in the history of the School. It shows an increase of 97 over the previous year, and was probably a result of the anticipation of the new and extended requirements for the degree of Master of Education...
...confused with Dr. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Master Mariner, first medical of the missionary to Labrador and now Superintendent of the International Grenfell Association operating hospitals, stores, orphanages, schools for fisherman of the far north...
...listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh to the "honest-to-God master genius" who invented the electric ice box. Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism. Crammed with a thousand facts, equipped with test tube and tuning...
...already numerous. Flaunted at the lavish wedding festivities are jewels, brocades, gold-chased armor, games, races, wines, meats. Only the beautiful princess holds herself aloof, unmoved, even when her bridegroom accepts two charming virgins as a wedding present. Though she refuses to put herself out to please her new master, she proves an able mistress of his women's quarters. Her favorite punishment is to overturn a large jar of beans in a culprit's presence and then require the miserable wretch to pick them up bean by scattered bean. This proves so effective that she rarely...
...with Hanoi Shan, shows that even the cleverest criminal meets his match. Many murders were committed by this Oriental, who with diabolical cleverness managed always to leave his victims in such a position that the demise seemed due to suicide. But finally Dr. Bertillon grew suspicious, and even this master of murderers was foiled by the science of detection...