Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizabeth and I are so close, we practically think as one person. Elizabeth is now mature enough to make any important decisions herself, and I want her to do so, and when she does make a decision I always find it's the same thing I would have done . . . We always seem to agree on everything...
...team of specialists on the job could be reasonably sure that when it was done not a brush stroke, a clumsily veined leaf, a speck of dust or a beaver hair out of place would mar the illusion of paralyzed reality. Fooling the eye, they agreed, is just a matter of patience and technique...
...Maritain sees it, the betrayal of Christianity has been done chiefly by those who are perhaps the worst atheists of all-the "practical" atheists who think of themselves as Christians. Absolute atheism is merely "a translation into crude and inescapable terms, a ruthless counterpart, an avenging mirror of the practical atheism of too many believers who do not actually believe . . . Decorative Faith is nowadays not enough . . . To believe in God must mean to live in such a manner that life cannot be lived if God does not exist...
...Commissioner. Already Arkansas had passed a referendum which cut the state's 1,500 school districts (many with less than 350 pupils) to an economical 428, abolished the 18-mill maximum on property taxes which had hamstrung most efforts to increase school allotments. But something had to be done to convince Arkansans that they should up their local school taxes, thus pay for the improvements which would push Arkansas up the education ladder...
That apparently had not satisfied Sewell Avery. At the news that he had done it again, U.S. Gypsum's stock tumbled 6½ points, dropping from 101½ to 95 in a week...