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Word: masters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin last week, the peasant who had become master of 450 million Chinese met with the peasant who was master of 200 million Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Meeting in Moscow | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Mister East Texas | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Painted on a 15-by-20-inch panel, the picture was almost surely the work of the great 15th Century Flemish master, Jean Clouet the Elder. Last week it had been identified by no less an authority than Maurice Goldblatt, director of the Notre Dame University art galleries, who first rescued Clouet from obscurity (his paintings were long known only as the work of "the Master of Moulins"), has since ascribed 20 other paintings to him. Chicago Lawyer Bailey Stanton, who picked up the picture on Goldblatt's advice, might well turn a $100,000 profit on his purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 15th Century Bargain | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Jones points out: "Teaching is not indoctrination. To analyze a theory is not to accept it, or to say that it is right, or to turn the teacher into a master and the students into intellectual slaves...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: 'Fortresses for Our Liberties' | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...most of Shakespeare's plays, you keep forgetting that the lines were written over 300 years ago. Touchstone's bawdiness, Rosalind's asides, plus a fine collection of the master's puns, maintain an atmosphere of wit that is as modern--and far more humorous--than Milton Berle. Some of Hepburn's lines had more punch than the ones she had in "The Philadelphia Story...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

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