Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
...master of my fate...
...forgot for an evening he was a great conductor, gave a concert alone with his first love. One arm over its shoulder, his head bravely near its horns, he stroked it, caressed it, hypnotized it until it fairly quivered with the excitement of making music again. Fleetly, like a master violinist he put it through the most intricate paces. Solemnly, majestically he let it announce itself father and ruler of them all. Ladies, victims long since to the charms of Conductor Koussevitzky, sighed new sighs for his double bass...
...faculty of the College of the City of New York, certain that Michael Bonney was the finest college janitor in the U. S., prepared a banquet for him. Anxious to make merry, they publicly gave him the "degree" of Past Master of Janitorial Science. They gave him a watch. President Frederick B. Robinson said: "We can't pretend to Michael Bonney. He knows us inside and out just as he knows the college inside...
...Into this mechanical mind" said Dr. Bush, "can be fed the conditions of a mathematical problem too complex for the human brain to master, and it will promptly grind out the answer and write it down, as efficiently as a machine takes in lumber and chemicals and produces finished boxes of matches...