Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consider ourselves fortunate that in the heterogeneous population of the Netherlands Indies, those elements of individuality and communal sense-though often not fully developed-are present, which have endowed Indonesian, Chinese and Hollander alike with the blessed gift of humor, the will for mutual appreciation and tolerance, and the power to stand united should-God forbid-we too be overcome by the catastrophes...
...grenade was a dud. Edison's reply: the leadership was not in the gift of Hague, but lay with the people, from whom he was willing to receive...
...bill calls for an increase of $3,529,200,000 in taxes for defense-including $1,322,900,000 in new corporate taxes, $1,152,000,000 in additional income taxes, $151,900,000 more in gift and estate taxes, the balance in new excise taxes. At the last minute the committee lopped off $26,100,000 worth of taxes on candy, chewing gum, metal signs and cutlery, replaced them with other levies designed to bring in at least $50,000,000. The new additions, and what they are expected to yield...
Inspired by the gift, Monrovia staged a historic pageant reenacting the raising of the first Liberian flag 94 years ago. Before two top-hatted, frock-coated personages representing the first President and Vice President of Liberia,* the flag was raised and a chorus of schoolgirls (see cut) sang...
Inspired by the ancient tithe (gift of a tenth), the Lord's Acre Plan got its start outside the churches eleven years ago, when James G. K. McClure, pious president of the Farmers Federation of North Carolina and son of the late theologian James Gore King McClure, decided the federation should have a religion department-something unique for a run-of-the-mill agricultural cooperative. Its project No. 1 was the Lord's Acre Plan, and its head was and is Mr. McClure's brother-in-law, the Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Presbyterian missionary and prep-school...