Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...post-Olympic plans include a career in business management or political journalism, as well as further work toward a master's degree. However he fares in Moscow, his experience should be useful when he writes his thesis. Its subject: the sociological, physiological and political aspects of sports as a career...
Several members of the Deerfield board of trustees yesterday cited Kaufmann's work at Harvard and his brief tenure as a teacher and house master at the academy as the main reasons behind his selection as headmaster...
Together long enough to master timing and goofy faces, the pair are best when they forget about dope and concentrate on telling jokes. When hundreds of police arrive to arrest them, they innocently wander out the back way, mingle with the cops, and make an eight-track recording of their sirens. This may not sound funny, but it is--humor being relative. Later, they play the instruments in a music store so loudly that they catch on fire. They take over the stage in a nightclub and tell dirty jokes until a chair-throwing brawl breaks out. They wander through...
...would not hold him long. He showed an aptitude for science, a field he took up because his grammar school offered no arts courses. He won a scholarship to Leicester University College, took first-class honors in chemistry and was asked to stay on for research. After earning a master's degree in physics, he ascended from his red brick university to the intellectual heights of Cambridge...
...occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this personage inquires as to the source of Alfgif's powers, the reply comes: "No power at all beyond the concentration of the master craftsman...