Word: gift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Program for Harvard College has received a $1.5 million gift to establish a center for the Visual Arts, Alexander M. White '25, general chairman of the fund, announced last night...
...Square. It was easy enough for young Edward to excel the average. In early childhood he showed a gift for mathematics. "One of my earliest memories," he recalls, "is that I was put to bed earlier than I liked and then lay awake in the dark, amusing myself by figuring how many seconds there were in a minute, an hour...
...high-strung, fenced-in Los Alamos colony working with desperate single purpose on the first Abomb. The son of a prosperous German immigrant, he was born in New York City, got his first taste of science at five, when he was visiting his grandfather in Germany and received a gift box of minerals. At Manhattan's Ethical Culture School he completed a year's chemistry course in six weeks-"and then I fell in love with physics because of the sweep of its laws, I suppose. In physics you get glimpses of such harmony and order!" After...
...revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with Sinclair, that strange, admirable, preposterous figure of a vanished America-a man with every gift except humor and silence...
...London during plague-time, transformed in its owner's absence to a headquarters for "casting figures, telling fortunes, news, selling of flies, and bawdry." The servant Face (James Stinson) and the Alchemist, Doctor Subtle, (Roger Moldovan) conspire with Doll-Common (Phyllis Ferguson) to dupe avaricious visitors who seek the gift of the philosopher's stone...