Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court appointed its onetime member, Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, to be Special Master in this suit, of which the ramifications affect Canada and U. S. foreign relations. Last week Special Master Hughes reported...
...succeeded his father, the 16th Earl, who was noted for his generosity, his stables and his conservative manners; he referred always to King Edward as "the King, my august master." The present Earl was educated at Wellington College and spent his early years in the army, holding many frilled, gold-laced positions. He entered politics with little enthusiasm and no ambition. Appointed Postmaster General in 1903, he applied his ponderous brain to the telephone system and subsequently nationalized it, the wisdom of which step has been disputed ever since...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The U. S., home of the huge, agreed that Max Reinhardt, Austrian, was the master of spectacle when he wove the wonder of The Miracle in 1924. Disapproving this restrictive distinction, he recently closed his Berlin and Vienna theatres, and bundled actors, scenery, costumes, to Manhattan to show his skill at smaller things. His first production was far from small, but it was delicate and true. Perhaps he started on a spacious scale in order to ease great expectations gradually down to subtler things...
...Buell '23, coach of the quarter-backs on the University football squad, has accepted a position as housemaster and instructor in History at Milton Academy, it was learned last night from W.L.W. Field '98, Head Master at the Academy. He will assume his new post next fall...
...Lindbergh acquired the first string of honorary letters after his name; M. A. S., Master of Aeronautical Science. The honor was accorded by St. Joseph College, Philadelphia; a Jesuit institution. At the ceremonial dinner, the flyer wore a gold-lined gown, a silver tassel on his flat academic...