Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could complain that they were bad neighbors. Harry Crocker, of French Canadian descent, was a mild-mannered, grey-haired man who worked for a camera manufacturer. Mrs. Crocker ran a gift shop in Hollywood. Muriel, 30, kept house; Alicia, 20, posed for art classes; Jeanne, 13, was in school. They were all Catholics. But their skins were dark...
...their oldest churches-traditional seat of St. Augustine, martyring-place of Thomas a Becket, repository of the bones of saints, and the goal of Chaucer's pilgrims. British economists were pleased to have this unexpected addition to Britain's dollar balance. But Thomas Lament's gift could be better measured in other terms. In his letter of thanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote...
With his Committee still wrestling with details of the drive, Campbell asserted that he would soon disclose means of collection, the agency through which the food will be distributed, and the recipients of the gift...
Peter D. Hanson '50, a victim of infantile paralysis after only one term in College, will have his local hospital expenses and transportation to Warm Springs, Georgia, paid by the Student Council's annual gift to the March of Dimes out of the Student Service Fund...
...letter from the state representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Council was informed that its gift of $600--slightly over ten cents per student enrolled--would be earmarked for the former Freshman stricken with the disease at the beginning of the Fall term...