Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angola's small clannish German group, which constitutes, next to the Portuguese, the largest white population, built up a strong separatist movement among the natives. Therefore, harried Dr. Salazar concluded it was time "to show the natives of the colonies that Portugal is master of the land, that the flag flies over them with undiluted colors." Hence President Carmona's visit. To make the visit more joyful the Premier agreed to part with $7,000,000 of his prized funds...
...survive even violent crashes. His Weather Bureau sets are sent up in balloons, are often in operating condition even after falling from great heights. A slender, blond young Englishman who went to the U. S. in 1930, Physicist Easton enrolled at Caltech two years ago to take his Master's degree, is now working for his Ph.D. To date he has built no working model of his design. Said he: "There is no reason to build a working model. Any radio man in the country could do it easily. There is nothing to test because the only...
...Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost Horizon. But as a master of pace, he is certainly no better in his department than England's enormously fat, lethargic Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps) in the department of nightmarish melodrama. For sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped...
...animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third-term tuna playfully leaping over Franklin Roosevelt, as he fished with a bobber for the small game of this year's election...
...program. To Manhattan went Dr. Hugh Cabot and friends, where they proceeded to hold their first annual meeting, under the name of the Committee of Physicians. They upheld the Roche program. To their Chicago fortress went A. M. A.'s triumvirate, repeating: "There can be but one master in the house of physician...