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Word: mastering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy House resident received a letter from President Bok last week denying a request that representatives from the Quincy Senior and Junior Common Rooms sit on the committee to select the new house master...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: Bok Refuses Student Request For Input on Quincy Master | 12/3/1980 | See Source »

Robert J. Kiely, master of Adams House, urged CHUL to accept GSA's request despite "whatever fear there might be that it will appear that the College is condoning something...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: CHUL Refuses to Allow Gays' Pamphlet in Packet | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

DEATH REVEALED. Willie Sutton, 79, master of meticulously planned bank robberies, whose ingenious disguises earned him the sobriquet "the Actor"; of a stroke; on Nov. 2; in Spring Hill, Fla. Sutton, who stole an estimated $2 million during a period of 35 years and broke out of three prisons before completing his final sentence in 1969, once said: "I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 1, 1980 | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...goal for the coming year. Point man Houston Hall, a stalwart performer for the past three years, asked his roommate Reid to give goaltending a try. The Kirkland House junior had played football, basketball, and tennis in high school, but was, he says, "a jack-of-all-trades and master of none...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Rich Reid | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

Though Japanese restaurants have popped up like bean sprouts throughout the U.S., all but the most intrepid American cooks refrain from emulating their cuisine. A pity. For, as Master Chef and Teacher Shizuo Tsuji demonstrates hi Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art (Kodansha; $14.95), Japanese food at its best is intrinsically austere, as much a matter of balance-texture, flavors, colors and freshness-as anything else. Not unlike Escoffier and the gurus of nouvelle cuisine, the Japanese chef insists: "Let little seem like much, as long as it is fresh and beautiful." Tsuji, a former journalist with a degree in French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Well-Laden Table of Cookbooks | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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