Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What then was Britain's good deed? "In the first place," Stewart Perowne told a TIME correspondent recently," "we created the country." Britain's main gift has been the fundamentals of orderly government and security. Before World War I no one dared go out Bagdad's South Gate after dark for fear of bandits. Now it is relatively safe. Many Iraqis used to walk about with one hand on their heads, to ward off djinns...
William Sansom is one of the morning stars among younger English prose writers. He has a gift for magic glitter that at times approaches that of one of his current literary enthusiasms, the young Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (TIME, Dec. 2). He also has the more durable gold of an original imagination. When both are kept in hand, he can write a story with all the finely selected observation (though not the humanity) of Flaubert. The Cleaner's Story, first in this book, is like that...
What Durocher lacks as a manager is supplied by his wily and pious boss, Branch Rickey, known as The Brain. It is Rickey who assembles the circus, Ringmaster Durocher who snaps the whip. Boss Rickey has a great gift for spotting young talent, signing them up hastily, and training them wisely. In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed...
Announcement of the gift came on the eve of the annual meeting of the Association of Public Health Schools, which will be attended by deans of these schools from all sections of the nation...
Acquisition of the funds brings the total made available to the School by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to more than $250,000. This latest gift will be used over a three-year period to study the relation of respiration and oxygen therapy to poliomyelitis...