Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Technique. This dry technique of telling a juicy story, marrying the British gift for understatement with the British craving for crimes of excess, was devised by a young barrister named George Riddell, who joined the paper at the turn of the century, when its circulation was 30,000. Riddell soon became managing editor, catered to other favored British tastes by adding big side dishes of sports coverage (including quoits, darts and pigeon racing) and contests, plus a light helping of political comment. "We're just like the Old Testament," Riddell told his critics. "We report crime and punishment." Riddell...
Furthermore, the Dental School faculty served gratis until 1929. A bequest of Charles A. Brackett D.M.D. '73, who taught without pay at the School for half a century, and a gift of John T. Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers in that year. Serious dental study is plainly, then, a recent development, but the field's trend, as shown by Eliot's words and climaxed by Conant's action, is no sudden offshoot. It grew with dentistry...
...created first baronet of Barcalvine and Glenure. There is little doubt that he liked his early portrait. It remained in the family for more than 100 years, was bought early this year by San Francisco Art Patrons Roscoe and Margaret Oakes and included in their most recent gift-eight oils now hanging in a new, oak-paneled room in San Francisco's De Young Museum...
...them but not one with them. With a few deft strokes of his caricaturist's drawing pen, he could put the lucubrations of a giant into gnat's perspective and keep the world itself in polite proportion. Wilde once remarked that he possessed the rare "gift of eternal old age." Despite his renown, Beerbohm remained a refugee not only from his talents ("My gifts are small, but I've used them discreetly and the result is a charming little reputation") and his time (he deplored the excesses of the 20th century), but from the world around...
Appalling Error. While Adenauer lay in his bed for seven weeks, more seriously ill than most people knew, Molotov at the second Geneva conference convinced thousands of West Germans that reunification was a gift to be bestowed by one power-the Soviet Union-and on its conditions. The failure of positions of strength to win East Germany back led some Germans to ask why they should waste time, money and manpower in rearming. Why rearm if there "ain't gonna be no war"? Almost immediately there began a widespread search for ways to circumvent Germany's pledges...