Word: dabblers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been very much a dabbler, and I'm not ashamed of it. Sometimes I wonder idly what I might be remembered for a hundred years from now-but I don't really very much care what people think about me, especially a hundred years hence." Perhaps John Burdon Sanderson Haldane did not really care, but last week, when it came time for BBC-TV to present a prefilmed obituary of the versatile British scientist in which he appeared, it was clear that he would be remembered for a multitude of contributions to man's knowledge...
...enthusiastic dabbler in photography and one who has known Ed Bailey for many years, I am gratified and pleased to see his excellent work so prominently displayed in TIME...
Himself a dabbler in real estate, Shakespeare was fascinated with property jargon. He often speaks of "purchase"-a then new method of acquiring land by other means than inheritance. Henry IV reminds his son that the crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease...
Suppressed desires, hidden hates, secret spites, conjugal conspiracies-all may be and have been expressed in a man's final accounting: his will. Although Author Menchin, a Wall Street financial writer and dabbler in testacy, punningly complains that will writing is "a dying art," this collection of "wills, odd and curious," leaves little doubt that in any era, where there's a will there's a way to get even...
...company plans to sell franchises for the centers, estimates that the operators will earn more than 25% annual return. Admission fee for adults starts at $1.50, includes skis, boots and poles. Says Ski-Dabbler Schine: "The idea captured my imagination the first time I heard of it. Skiing is fashionable. It's healthy and clean...