Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which has made it a factor of such power in the development of our speech? What are the qualities which have stamped indelibly its very phraseology upon the literary master-pieces 300 years? What, in particular, is the nature of the deeply evolution through which the noble vehicle of a great and deeply significant literature called itself at last in English words...
Awarded also were 30 degrees of Master of Arts, and 31 doctorates of Philosophy. Besides these, 27 other degrees went to students in the various Graduate Schools of the University...
...President Roosevelt's tone of voice when he talked on Thursday night about the national problem of the Supreme Court at the Party dinner that frankly got under our skin. For not only was every rank and shade of economic royalist run through the hoops of the circus--master's magnificent invective, but the nine old guinca pigs were asked to perform a lot of experiments that even nine humans couldn't in reason be asked to go through, much less a body of lawyers...
...unexpected decision by the country's highest court, La Cour de Cassation. Its sprightly old men, who would be considered insipid and absurd if they did not keep their own quota of mistresses, found on their calendar in a single day three cases of the same type: a master has died in an accident, and his wife and children and mistress are seeking justice. The mistress produces to the court letters from her late master, rent receipts, paid grocery bills and other evidence establishing that she is by no means a "loose or promiscuous" woman as those terms...
Hitherto French courts have held that such an exemplary mistress, whether or not her master was also married, had a juridical right to share modestly with the relatives of her man in whatever is collected from the person to blame for the accident which killed him. Mistresses mourned, wives exulted in France this week for the Highest Tribunal, after hearing in one day three mistresses try to prove themselves admirable, handed down the blanket decision that henceforth any woman upon the sudden death by accident of her man shall "have right to damages only if united to the victim...