Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue to be so. But last week, this convenient arrangement lay in ruin. "Belgium...
Married. Catherine Wood Marshall, 45, bestselling author (A Man Called Peter; Mr. Jones, Meet the Master; To Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed...
According to Elliott Perkins, Master of Lowell House, the members of the Committee, which is comprised mostly of Masters, felt that the College should improve the service, rather than remove it. Students left to clean for themselves would hardly clean at all, said Perkins...
...contrast to Master Perkins, Trottenberg felt that the proposal represented "not a badly reasoned conservation of funds." Because the dry dorm crew removes only "surface dust," and that once a week, Trottenberg could not see its importance. "The cleanliness of the student room should depend on the student himself," he commented. Trottenberg plans to keep the idea under consideration...
...also done in 1919, depicts with vitality a woman of fashion. The finely tooled detail and Ingresque perceptiveness of Seated Lady contrasts with the vivid elegance of the Portrait. Here, Modigliani's relish for feminine beauty combines perfectly with his love for the controlled line to create a modern "master drawing...