Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there anything that could be done...
...dreams," wrote Teresa, "carry me to a small village in the Caucasus . . . Sick people come to me and I cure them. Nobody thinks about money because everyone has all he needs. Special rays replace sunlight in factories. Work is easy because the heaviest part is done by machines. Anyone who wants one can have an automobile." As time goes by, Teresa can even see herself entering the evening of life a "surgeon in a great clinic," and the inventor of "an important medicine...
...badly needed. Raising the standard of Ontario resort cooking even to that of an army mess was a major operation. "Ontario," quipped a visitor to Toronto, "is as conservative gastronomically as it is politically. Eating is a dull pastime indeed, something to have and to have done with...
...crisp little grand-pères (doughballs cooked in a pot of maple syrup). In the Maritimes, there are lobsters and clam chowder, Annapolis Valley baked apple dumplings, and a sturdy pudding called blueberry grunt. On the prairies the great delicacy is smoked Winnipeg goldeye (a Canadian lake fish) done to a golden turn, and Vancouver brings forth huge meaty crabs from the icy waters of Boundary...
...himself (superintendent of Des Moines's public schools), also prefers it that way. In 14 years as U.S. Commissioner of Education, he has stayed out of trouble with Congress and professional educators. Said the 450,000-member National Education Association: "Under Dr. Studebaker, the Office of Education has done admirably the things government should do in education, keeping out of those it shouldn...