Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that all may know, Peerless, at this Show, presented three entirely new cars-the Standard Eight at $1500; the Master Eight at $2000; the Custom Eight at $3000. Quite a vast difference from the model which you list...
...burnt toast, "of one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country. I do not think there is much if any merit in your confessions which are nothing more or less than the threadbare plea of a clerk who robs his master and hopes to repay before his crime is discovered by backing winners at the races. Clarence Charles Hatry, I sentence you to 14 years in penal servitude...
...subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss) which is extolled by its readers as the rich, devious history of a master of aggrandizement, a luxurious pageant of 18th Century Swabia, teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier of his daughter when his voice is moving with tragic cadences. But you cannot forget that this...
...Montessori-trained youngster be arrested, nor is the pupil stimulated to any unnatural effort. The system of "rewards & punishment" is un-Montessorian because it encourages the child to do something it would not want to do otherwise. A child who is not mentally or physically sick must become "master of himself" when at liberty. Platonically, he has then become disciplined. Parents are assured that Montessori-trained children are not told, ballad-wise: "If you feel like yelling, yell like hell!" Anti-social behavior is anticipated by the second precept, an appeal to the individual "mysterious life-force," curiosity...
...educators, perhaps, have given serious consideration to Dr. Lowell's proposal to do away with intercollegiate sports, but many can see some merit in the proposal to abolish the master's degree. Students who wish to pursue further study after graduation should be free to work toward either the A. M. or Ph.D. It should not be necessary to abolish the A.M., and it should not be necessary for a graduate student to obtain an A.M. before beginning work toward the higher degree. College Press...