Word: acclaimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lecturer, whose works have received acclaim abroad, did painting and photography for the Farm Security Administration during the thirties and for the Office of War Information during World...
...when he debunked the "trash" written to explain why he turned traitor. Said he of one theory: "I haven't been uniformly successful in love, but I didn't get into espionage for that reason." Nor was it because of an inferiority complex or a desire for acclaim that he devoted eleven years to passing atomic secrets to the Russians. "Somewhere in me, through the years, I got a basic disrespect-it got so I thought I could ignore authority if I thought I was right. I was cocksure." With what seemed genuine remorse, Harry Gold summed...
...Walter Gropius sent plans for a curved-front, eight-story apartment house. Set on stilts, the building will be constructed of white concrete and white enameled metal. ¶ From Brazil, Oscar Niemeyer submitted a toned-down version of his usually flamboyant tropical style. His plan, approved last week, won acclaim at once. It calls for an eight-story, glass-ended apartment house honeycombed with private balconies. To service the building, which will rest on 14 V-shaped stilts, Niemeyer has housed the elevator in a separate wedge-shaped structure.* To cut costs, stops will be made only...
...addition to the annual Junior-Senior dinner, Hoadley initiated foreign repasts for the House at large. He has already held a German hofbrau replete with knackwurst, black, strudel, and beer, to Leverett men's great acclaim, and will produce an Italian spaghetti and chianti dinner shortly...
Egypt's agricultural adjustment act of about 1800 B.C., outlined in the later chapters of Genesis, did not bring general acclaim to the secretary of agriculture. Given authority over the land, Joseph stored corn in the plenteous years and sold it back to the people during the famine for gold rings, cattle and land. But there has been great dispute about Joseph's right to appropriate surplus crops and then compel the people to pay for them. What is more, his system eventually resulted in state ownership of all the land, and some people thought that was entirely...