Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Members of the upper three classes only (and not graduates), who do not reside in the Houses but who are granted a House privilege such as library, dining hall, etc., by a House Master, may represent that same House...
...foot, 240-lb., 61-year-old master politician, standing near the President of the U. S. in Harvard Yard, had between him and the U. S. Senate a slim political stripling who. with an umbrella over his damp silk hat, was a mere marshal among Harvard's alumni in the crowd below...
Never happier than when he is displaying the flowery diction expected of an honorary degree-holder from Boston's Staley College of the Spoken Word, rich-voiced Governor Curley then arose and intoned: "I bring the greetings of the State of Massachusetts. . . . That master of prose and poetry who has sounded every depth and shoal of human feeling, William Shakespeare, unquestionably anticipated this institution when he penned the line which reads 'How far that little candle throws its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world.' " After reviewing the history of Harvard, Democrat Curley...
...left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological, geological and biological material, made hundreds of deep-sea soundings...
...exploded Flyer Merrill to a reporter who found him not speaking to Flyer Richman as they labored to pull their monoplane out of a Newfoundland bog. "We had enough gas to get to Atlanta. Why did we land here in the marsh? Ask Mr. Richman! He's the master mind here...