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Word: mastering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud of his master, King Al fonso, the Ambassador waxed indignant in answering the charges that his monarch had become the "slave of a dictator [Primo de Rivera]." Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Student Prince has had other incarnations. First it was the play Old Heidelberg, in which Richard Mansfield appeared; then an operetta, produced by the Shuberts. Now it is a film in which Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer are directed by Ernst Lubitsch, whom most people recognize as the foremost master of cinema comedy and point to as a particularly baffling example of how a man can be light and Teutonic at the same time. It is the atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...Jack, JACK. ... we wanted Jack to say hello, too . . . boxed a real good fight . . . Tunney managed to master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Voices | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Because of its success last season as a Freshman sport, hiking will be continued this year it was announced yesterday. The first hike of the season will be made on Sunday. October 9, under the guidance of R. H. Lee 3L, hike-master...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIKING AGAIN FORMS PART OF FRESHMAN SPORT CURRICULUM | 9/30/1927 | See Source »

Speaker Nicholas Longworth could see no possible reason for a special sitting of the House over whose doings he is ring master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Special Session | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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