Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bemoaned the passing of the oldline lobbyist who "really knew the tariff." He suggested the formation of a special school in which younger men could be taught the art of tariff lobbying. Praise from the master-lobbyist: "If there were a hundred brilliant young men like Mr. Eyanson [see below] in Washington, the country would be better...
...laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like a pine torch while a crowd watched and fire-engines drenched the studios on each side of it with water. When the fire was over no one for a while could open the red-hot doors of the vaults in which "master" films were stored...
...trail of international wiretappers, murderers, kidnappers, he gumshoes in many disguises along the corridors of the fastest ocean liner afloat. Adroitly he deals with dictaphones, fake wireless messages, the poisoned needle springing from the clasp of a cigaret box. When at last the Master Criminal lies dead and the fiance of the daughter of his old friend is restored to society, he punctuates with a tap of his pipe the famed, "Eleementary, Watson, eleementary." Best shot: dinner 'for two in the arch-fiend's cabin...
...when he was exiled from his country by the Soviet government, because of literature which he had published. Educated at the Teachers College and Psycho-Neurological Institute in St. Peters burg, and also at the University of St. Petersburg, he received the degrees of Doctor of Sociology and Master of Criminal...
Professor Lowes has been chosen to inaugurate the professorship recently established at Oxford by George Eastman of Rochester, New York. He was elected by a committee composed of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Master of Balliol College, the Warden of New College, and two representatives of the Rhodes trustees, one of whom is Frank Aydejotte, president of Swarthmore College...