Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Master of Scientific Theology...
...Caesar." Britannia is said to have ruled the waves of all the oceans. Other powers have been content to rule a sea apiece. Rome was the Mediterranean's master. The Kaiser ruled the Baltic. Mussolini claims the Adriatic. To every sea its Caesar?to the Caribbean the mighty...
...such it undoubtedly became in his own particular field of modern international relations. Master of many languages and acquainted with the public men of many countries, he was particularly at home in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Near and Far East, and did much to develop the scholarly study of these regions in American Universities. After he gave up the conduct of History 1 in 1905, his teaching and writing centered more and more about recent diplomatic history. To undergraduates he brought a sense of fresh contact with the affairs of the wider world, while among graduate...
However great a loss the reported destruction of the famous Turner drawings may be for the world of art in general and for the Tate Gallery in particular, this destruction must come in a certain sense as a bore for all who may possess specimens of the master's work in their collections. The destruction of the work of an artist must multiply the value of those works which remain. Philatelists have been known to destroy one of two specimens of a given stamp in order to double the value of the remaining one. Possessors of Turner's drawings...
...transatlantic run the Cunarder Andania was perhaps subjected to heaviest buffeting. When she reached Liverpool her master, Captain Doyle said: "It was as bad as we could have it and stay afloat. . . . Mountainous seas washed over us fore...