Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call at the White House. As is usual these days, they came bearing a resolution praising the President's leadership and urging him to run again. Ike thanked the Ohioans and then showed them some of his treasures, e.g., a Hepplewhite table he had used at SHAEF (gift of an anonymous admirer). Later he let them in on some musings about his future...
...prophet that I could understand all about the world situation, the domestic situation and my own situation, including the way I felt, and possibly with the health and everything else, as of that moment, then there would be no great excuse for deferring the decision. "I have not that gift of prophecy." Last week the President also: ¶ Praised the record of the Democratic 84th Congress in the field of foreign affairs ("I for one am deeply grateful"), but sharply criticized its score on domestic legislation. Ike reread his list of "must" bills, which he had first read...
...Easter chick can be a poor gift for a child, Minnesota doctors found after checking what happened in Hennepin County last year: twelve persons (six of them infants under a year old) had a severe intestinal disorder, marked by fever, diarrhea, blood in the stool and vomiting, after exposure to chicks infected (as many poultry are) with bacteria called Salmonella typhimurium...
Each year the chapter buys from 250 to 400 steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...
...parting pat on the back for retiring President Henry Wriston of Brown University (TIME, April 11), John D. Rockefeller Jr., '97, announced that he was supplementing his June gift of $1,000,000 to the university with $4,000,000 more-he largest single gift Brown has ever received. Commented well-contented Henry Wriston: "A gift of these dimensions, completely unrestricted as it is . . . is evidence that the days of significant philanthropy are not over...