Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nicest things about Christmas at TIME is the renewed vote of confidence our readers give us each November and December-when so many of you share your own discovery of TIME with your friends by sending them gift subscriptions...
...only natural that so many more subscribers than ever before are choosing TIME as a Christmas present. For in times like these it seems hard to imagine a TIME subscriber whose friends would not welcome TIME too-and TIME each week in 1944 will indeed be a long-remembered gift...
Certainly we do not want to tell any subscriber that this year we cannot continue the long-standing TIME-for-Christmas tradition-that this Christmas we cannot accept gift subscriptions for busy men or women who today more than ever would welcome TIME's help in following the news quickly and confidently. We do not feel we should refuse your gifts to some boy or girl whose war-born interest in the news you may wish to guide into intelligent channels. Most certainly we do not want to say "no" to any subscriber who wants to send TIME...
Posing as cigaret-company representatives, they said they wanted to send each man a carton as a gift. A wife, a mother, and a girl friend quickly supplied the information that their men had just sailed on a transport. One woman cheerily volunteered its destination...
...specimens of trout flies." Most of the Sousa living-room was given over to a truckload of balsam wood, several barrels of paint. Out of these Father planned one day to fashion his own duck decoys. On the dining-room table stood his favorite Christmas present- joint gift of the family-a bullet-loading machine. Father always slept with one to three loaded revolvers under his pillow, plus spare rounds of ammunition. His own room resembled "a merger between A. G. Spalding and Abercrombie & Fitch...