Word: finds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the news was out, and Southern Rhodesia was in a dither about the greatest find of emeralds in Africa since the days of the ancients who used to dig the green gems from "Cleopatra's Mines" near the shores of the Red Sea. To the ancients, emeralds were a specific against epilepsy and dysentery, an aid in childbirth, eye troubles and the preservation of chastity. To Contat and Oosthuizen, the emeralds at Belingwe may represent a fortune in excess of $20 million. They have already turned down an offer of $2,800,000 for a quarter share...
What about Chiwaro, the African helper whose find led to the discovery of the emerald treasure? He has not been forgotten. The millionaire prospectors have promised him a lifetime pension of $420 a year...
Composer Britten, a resident of Aldeburgh (pop. 2,689), likes to write for children-"They find my idiom easier than grownups do, and they don't argue with me. You never find a child saying, 'That note should be F natural.' " He recruited his 5-to 17-year-old chorus from three neighboring schools, gave them three months to learn their lines and six weeks to learn the music. What impressed him even more than their musical aptitude was their anxiety to please. Early in the rehearsal period, he spotted a small boy wearing a duck label...
...basics of furniture buying, will send speakers and films to women's clubs, farm and teen-age groups, Parent-Teacher Associations and firms that employ many women. It will also train salespeople-many of whom do not have the best taste in furniture-to help the housewife find out what she really wants, show her what new pieces will fit in best with her old furniture...
...book has its faults, including occasional oversimplification. But Americans as well as Europeans who wish to understand America should consider it must reading. They will find an illuminating witness to the American promise as well as a heart-lifting prophecy. Says Maritain: "If a new Christian civilization, a new Christendom is ever to come about in human history, it is on American soil that it will find its starting point...