Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge. It was a model of lucidity, enlivened by the kind of homely advice which the astute Medina has made a legal stock in trade. "If you once get yourself in a frame of mind where you know that you have a task ahead and it has to be done carefully and it has to be done just right," he said, rocking gently back & forth beneath the Stars & Stripes and the Great Seal of the United States, "then there comes a certain calm and peace of mind which are the essence of the administration of justice...
...there were already signs that the crop, while large, would not be as big as forecast. In Iowa,the nation's biggest corn producer, the corn borer had done more damage than ever before. A dry summer had also hurt a bit. The Department of Agriculture lopped off almost 80 million bushels from its original lowa crop estimate of 662 million bushels. Then one day last week, the wind came...
...fanaticism" and "warmaking agitation." Other "revisionists," e.g., Professor Avery Craven of the University of Chicago, argue that slavery would have broken down of its own weight, that the war was made inevitable as a result of irresponsible leadership by power-driven politicians. What those leaders should have done, adds Columbia University's Allan Nevins, "was to furnish a workable adjustment" between the North & South...
Since Matisse first conceived the chapel (TIME, Jan. 3), the ailing but happy old man has altered his plans for it again & again. The design for its eight narrow stained-glass windows of half-abstract leaves and cactuses done in blue, yellow and green was worked out by pinning colored scraps to long rolls of brown wrapping paper tacked to the walls of his hotel suite at Nice. The interior design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from...
After ripping off tackle on a 53-yard sprint a fortnight ago, Yale's Levi Jackson modestly confessed he couldn't have done it "if Columbia's right tackle had not been blocked out of the play." Last week, in studying the movies of the game (which Yale won 33-7), Columbia Coach Lou Little found out that Halfback Jackson was not quite right. The real explanation: in one of Columbia's modern, high-'frequency substitutions, only ten Columbia men had trotted on to the field. Columbia's right tackle, when Jackson got away...