Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time, increased pay and better living conditions for both officers and men. The equivalent of reviving David Lloyd George's War-time Ministry of Munitions, Secretary Hore-Belisha achieved by appointing Vice Admiral Sir Harold Arthur Brown, Director General of Munitions Production, to the additional post of Master General of the Ordnance...
...Tibetans, 7,000,000 Mongols and other races in Central Asia, is a form of Buddhism, brought from India through the snow-swept passes of the Himalayas in the 7th Century. Lamaists believe in numerous divine incarnations, chief of which are-1) the Dalai Lama, temporal master of Tibet and "Buddha of Mercy," 2) His Serenity the Panchen or Tashi Lama, spiritual leader and "Buddha of Boundless Light...
...Times, no transfer of common shares by a living holder to anyone except Owners Astor and Walter can be made without approval from an austere committee whose members are the Speaker of the House of Commons, Governor of the Bank of England, Warden of All Souls, Oxford, Master of the Rolls, Lord Chief Justice, Headmaster of Eton College...
...fond of Italian opera, particularly of Verdi, whom he considers one of the greatest figures in music. For him Mozart and Mendelssohn "are the two greatest geniuses of the orchestra," and Beethoven, "the master above all others." However, in a recent interview he remarked with a twinkle: "All good composers lived in Egypt 5,000 years...
...housemaster. He is beginning to suffer for his unsuccessful resistance against the inhumanity of the grotesquely pious housemaster. The three young women start things off with a cocktail housewarming in the middle of the night, thus beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin of the worthy master, under whose nose it all takes place. When they think that they have cost him his job, they seek to make amends by trying to marry him off to their aunt, but he manages to cling gracefully to celibacy, and winds up in the place of the clergyman...