Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps Master Vaupell did not sweep conscientiously, because subsequent records show the New York Stock Exchange wandering the Wall St. district, occupying now a tavern hall, another time a hay loft or a rented room, until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail...
...margin of only 150,000,000 francs upon which to draw, today she has 7,350,000,000 francs at her disposal in a currency worth nearly double what it was. This improvement is due: a) to the daring reforms put into effect by M. Poincaré, recently dubbed "Master of France," who not only has been a financial wizard but virtually a fiscal dictator; and b) to the patience of the people of France...
...Carte, In the opening number, the Master of Ceremonies announced that Miss Rosalie Stewart's- revue is called A La, Carte, because, out of the variety of offerings served, the audience is requested to take what it likes and leave the rest. That is a capital idea. Unfortunately theatrical limitations impose upon Miss Stewart's revue, as indeed upon all others, the table d'hote principle. You cannot taste her chicken and custard without swallowing her bean soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy...
...Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well as an impudent coincidence that the dog 'should bear so exact a facial resemblance to his master. Yet there it was, the calm, thoughtful visage, the long, sagacious nose, Herald Tribune readers whispered, "They're as like as two Chinamen...
Wiser readers, imperturbed, found a more satisfactory explanation of the unpleasant likeness between photographed dog and alleged master. They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further they surmised (rightly) that Miss Charles, alert owner of the prize-winning Schnauzer, had given him a name which his appearance richly merited...