Word: bestow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...archaeology, some of which, according to Dr. Wilson, still stand as the best works of their kind. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy as a young man, and some years before his death won, for his historical researches, the highest award the Academy could bestow. He was Ireland's Medical Census Commissioner. The Wilde home was a center of the city's scientific and literary life, and the Wildes themselves were one of the sights of Dublin. As a small boy, George Bernard Shaw saw them at a concert: Sir William, small,-"dressed...
...four Americans and four U.S. communities came the second greatest honor the Church of Rome can bestow...
...they scrimp & save to send their children to school and college, and spend money on school buildings and equipment, Americans in general act as though they believe education is a cure for every social ill. But in the way they fail to bestow pay, respect and freedom on their teachers, Americans seem not to understand the first thing about education. Last week the National Opinion Research Center (University of Denver) supplied further evidence of this national ignorance...
...elsewhere in the Army- but in the A.A.F. there is still another factor. In the rapid Air Forces expansion following Pearl Harbor, young men were pushed into important jobs because they could do them. The policy of "Hap" Arnold (57), who respects youth more than most oldsters, was to bestow rank commensurate with the job, and to hell with seniority...
...taffeta.* He is also an honorary member of London's famed and hoary Athenaeum Club. These honors have now been augmented by one from another great ally of the U.S.-Russia's Order of Suvorov, First Degree, one of the highest military awards the Soviet Union can bestow...