Ammann's designs for the George Washington Bridge, and, later, the Bayonne Bridge, caught the attention of master builder Robert Moses, who drafted Ammann into his service.

Robert Moses ( December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981 ) was the " master builder " of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, New York.

In 1924, the state established the Long Island State Park Commission headed by " master builder " Robert Moses as part of a statewide park and parkway program, also run by Moses.

The park, originally Fire Island State Park, was renamed for Robert Moses, a " master builder " of mid 20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York, president of the Long Island State Park Commission in the early and middle 20th century who oversaw the expansion of the state park system on Long Island.

The plot is that of Egypt in the throes of a threatening conflict between master and slave, with Moses denouncing his privileges as an Egyptian-reared soldier and finding new responsibility as a leader of his people.

New York master building planner Robert Moses had always been a vocal critic of Coney Island, likening the crowds that flocked there during the summer months to the crowds of New Yorkers that flooded the city's tenement houses.

Because of his ingenuity, Moses learned to read, forge metal, and buy his freedom from his master, thus freeing himself from the slavery of the American south.

Sir Moses I. Finley CBE, FBA ( May 20, 1912 – June 23, 1986 ) was an American professor, whose prosecution by the McCarran Security Committee led to his move to England, where be became English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Jews who reached high positions in the Ottoman court and administration include Mehmed II's minister of Finance (" defterdar ") Hekim Yakup Pasa, his Portuguese physician Moses Hamon, Murad II's physician Ishak Pasha and Abraham de Castro, the master of the mint in Egypt.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Man, through democratic institutions of government and economic freedom, was master of his destiny.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

it was partly his master.

As the Zen literature reveals, as soon as an early Zen master attained fame in seclusion, he was called out into the world to exercise his powers.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

In his study of Greek literature his master was Emmanuel Chrysoloras.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

Where the allied armies were slow to deploy and study the tank in the inter-war years, the German army was very eager to study and master this new technology.

Several of Alberus's hymns, all of which show the influence of his master Luther, have been retained in the German Protestant hymnal.

* 1859 – Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master ( d. 1913 )

A corresponding principle of German law is Stadtluft macht frei (" city air makes you free "), in longer form Stadtluft macht frei nach Jahr und Tag (" city air makes you free after a year and a day "): by custom and, from 1231 / 32, by statute, a serf who had spent a year and a day in a city was free, and could not be reclaimed by their former master.

In addition, psychologists were reluctant to risk being associated with the German Nazi claims of a " master race ".

** Muho Noelke, German Zen master

Nazi Germany thought of German gay men as part of the " master race " and sought to force them into sexual and social conformity.

Examples of words of German or Yiddish origin spoken in Ukraine include dakh ( roof ), rura ( pipe ), rynok ( market ), kushnir ( furrier ), and majster ( master or craftsman ).

Even as late as 1915, the Caesar cipher was in use: the Russian army employed it as a replacement for more complicated ciphers which had proved to be too difficult for their troops to master ; German and Austrian cryptanalysts had little difficulty in decrypting their messages.

Nabokov based The Defense on the life of German chess master Curt von Bardeleben who committed suicide by leaping from a window in 1924.

Professor Friedrich " Fritz " Bhaer: A poor German immigrant who was a famous professor in Berlin but now lives in Mrs. Kirke's boarding house and works as a language master, seeing some of his students in Mrs. Kirke's parlor.

At one point, he reads aloud a long roster of the school's fallen alumni, and, defying the modern world he sees as soulless and lacking transcendent values of honour and friendship, dares to include the name of a German former master who has died fighting on the opposite side.

* Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, German chess master.

This made him master of Franche-Comté and Besançon, a francophone German city.

Her father, a descendant of an old German family, was a wealthy iron master and merchant.

Although too weak to stand up unaided, Morphy insisted on going ahead with a match against the visiting German master Adolf Anderssen, considered by many to be Europe's leading player.

Said Joshua Klein in The Washington Post, " Years before everyone else caught on, Stereolab was referencing the 1970s German bands Can and Neu !, the Mexican lounge music master Esquivel and the decidedly unhip Burt Bacharach.

* Gustav Lilienthal, German master builder and social reformer

Before he was able to speak German with even moderate correctness he had become a master of Talmudic argumentation, and his fame had traveled far beyond the limits of his native place.

Upon completion of the mission, Hogan yells to Kinch to end the fight, and Kinch lays the German out with one punch whereupon Hogan throws in the towel and surrenders the fight to prevent the obvious disaster of a Black POW defeating the " master race's finest boxer.

The Allies believed Rundstedt to be a far more powerful and influential figure than he in fact was, regarding him with " respect, almost awe " as the master strategist of the German Army-something he would not find helpful after the war.

It can be inferred from the episode that Hohenheim is the master of a secret society in a prestigious German university, and that he teaches alchemy to respected scholars ( Haushofer included ) in pre-Nazi Germany.

A number of collections of different types have been classified using Iconclass, notably many types of old master print, the collections of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin and the German Marburger Index.

He then took up the study of German, worked at Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, and sought to master the Philosophy of Nature of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, which at first greatly attracted him.