Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corduroy pants stuffed into five-buckle arctics, shook the rain from his shoulders, entered the Nanty Glo State Bank across the street. In Suchman's jewelry store, a few doors from the bank, a miner's wife looked over the slim stock of watches, hunting a gift for her soldier son. The pillar of smoke that came from the main stack of the Heisley mine (one of the three within the town's limits) fused into the rain, flattened, hung over the landscape in a grey pall. The hands of the clock outside the window of Such...
...letter deposited with the Corporation by Lowell, marked to be opened after his death, stated that the gift was to be kept anonymous until then and thereafter to bear the name of his wife as "The Anua Parker Lowell Fund...
Until last summer, when the Army decided not to look its gift horses in the mouth, bad teeth were the largest cause for rejecting drafted men (20.9% of rejected candidates). Now some 2,500,000 "dental cripples," whose teeth may unfit them for service at any time, are being drafted for the 11,000,000-man U.S. Army. Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser has a plan, published last fortnight in Pepper Committee hearings, for making all 2,500,000 dental fit within a year, for about $25 apiece. Estimated average needs per man: two bridges, two extractions, five inlays...
...moral guilelessness which may well rate as the most valuable gift of the Negro to American civilization is exemplified in almost every stanza of this slim 26-poem book. But Poetess Walker does not overrate the virtues of her people any more than she underrates the trouble they...
...since the gift did not include the Britannica's (i.e., Sears's) working capital, rich U.C.'s trustees thought they might be getting a pig in a poke. They did not want to risk endowment funds on a property that had long had more cachet than cash (though its domestic sales last year were over $4,000,000, Sears prudently carried the Britannica on its books at $1). Result: Bill Benton himself agreed to put up whatever might be needed to keep it going, took an unnamed percentage of the stock from U.C. to back his investment...