Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the news from Europe took a new, odd twist. If some master of suspense had planned the week's plot-artfully following a big speech (see p. 20) with a timely assassination (see p. 23) a possible conspiracy nipped in the bud (see p. 21) and the Japanese, as usual, providing comic relief (see p. 25)-if it all had been planned ahead of time to create the utmost mystery, it could hardly have been improved upon. As melodrama, as a spectacle-as comedy as low as slapstick, and as tragedy as elevated as the warfare...
University Total7,990 College Total 3,552 Graduate Schools: Arts and Sciences 917 Education 85 Teaching (Master) 40 Medical School 523 Public Health 76 Dental School 156 Law School 1375 Business School 930 School of Design 83 Engineering School 142 Divinity School 64 Public Administration (Littauer School) 13 Junior Fellows 22 Nieman Fellows...
Other departments have substantially the same number as in recent years. Candidates for the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching number 40; candidates for degrees in Education, Graduate School of Education...
...notorious labor-baiter, the Paper King writes sanctimonious essays praising Japan's simple life (i. e., low standard of living), exulting in the fact that even Cabinet Ministers get paid only the equivalent of $200 a month. The Paper King told newspapers that he was out to master the German economy. "I will understand it in one glance of it, being the veteran industrialist served this world for 45 years now," he said...
...chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have to be a mon ster vocabulary requiring a lifetime to master. Dr. Neurath feels that this Tower of Babel can be overstepped by developing a common grammar of science-a unified manner of scientific exposition-so that one savant can understand another if he looks up the unfamiliar words...