Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admits having friends on the administration: Secretary of Labor Mitchell, Presidential Secretary Bernard Shanley (whom Brennan considers "an intimate"), and Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers, among the most prominent. But their recommendation, along with an admittedly helpful laudatory letter from Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of New Jersey, cannot account entirely for the President's choice...
...make up for Toynbee's distortions, Mr. Samuels has tried to correct the picture. In the success he presents an account of his own spiritual money through his special field, making interesting and important critical evaluations of Jewish work and thought. In a pleasant style, he gives an understanding of the contribution and continuity of Jewish life...
...total investment account of the University had a market value of $442,000,000 in June 1955, but increased to a value of $41,800,000 to $44,800,000. Of the endowment increase, $11,000,000 came from new gifts, with the remainder coming largely from capital gains and appreciation...
...from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between 25 and 30"), and some scholars look on it as a historical account of a real war; e.g., General Yigael Yadin of Israel finds in it various similarities with Roman fighting practices. But despite the military overtones, the document's elaborate and elusive reading is almost certainly an allegory of the struggle of good against evil...
...Duchess of Windsor, to many a most enviable woman, believes that she has an "appalling" place in history. This account of how she got there, according to her loyal publishers, was written by her alone, but ghostly fingers may nevertheless be detected at work with the familiar cheesecloth. The life of Wallis Warfield of Baltimore is well-known-perhaps too well. But this retelling carries the great interest of being her own first official version of how she played finders-keepers, losers-weepers with a king and his kingdom...