Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prisoner by the Germans in 1916 when he tried to cross the Belgian frontier to join King Albert's expatriate army. Released at war's end, he studied law at Brussels, finished the five-year course in 2% years and, well-endowed with his father's gift for the dramatic, had a brief fling at the bar before entering politics as a fiery young Socialist (he was called a "Bolshevik in a dinner jacket"). In 1938 he became his nation's youngest Prime Minister, and has spent most of the years since either in that...
...students, the Dearborn center will give regular liberal-arts courses as well as work in engineering and business administration. But students will divide their time between academic work and jobs in industry. Michigan's first experiment in cooperative education, the center also represents the largest single gift ever made by a corporation to a college or university...
Victor Borge, the happy Dane, comes to TV in his own show hardly more often than Christmas or the Festival of Music, and he is just as welcome. There are no comedians with Borge's talent for the piano, and no pianists with Borge's gift for comedy; moreover, with wit and fingers that are equally limber, he can travel first class in either company. In his second hour-long CBS appearance, Borge departed from his one-man show format, which earned him an 849-performance run on Broadway, to use a 42-piece orchestra -but he used...
...time of the building's construction the Corporation voted it "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to cost, daily usefulness and moral significance...
...anonymous Coop salesgirl says that last Christmas' most popular gift, cocktail sets, are being outsold by smoked glassware and electric frypans...