Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reading as many papers as I do ... I have been tremendously impressed with the reactions of editors and critics to this remarkable film series. The men and women of LIFE and TIME have added new scope to General Eisenhower's great book and . . . they have given to all of us-the older generation, the young people of today, and our children tomorrow-a view of what millions endured during World War II. We whose sons were under fire in the war suffered enormous strain, but only now can we, through these films, really fully appreciate the burdens that...
...Divan. This week Lloyd, convalescing from a serious gall-bladder operation, stood at another satisfying apex of his life. He had given himself unstintingly to Shrine activities. He had been Al Malaikah Temple's Potentate. For the past seven years he had worked among the Shrine's crippled children's hospitals, had been a director and trustee of that program, which is a substantial and sober part of Shrine activities. It maintains 16 hospitals, annually raises millions of dollars through its circuses, East-West football game, annual dues and local contributions...
...Moore's inauguration, Bunnell sounded an old alarm. The impoverished Territorial Legislature had given its university next to nothing for two years, and the regents have had to borrow $225,000 so far to pay off fuel bills and salaries. To Terris Moore, Charles Bunnell made a pledge: "We will not permit the university to close, if we have to go to the people who believe in Alaska and borrow our needs in ten and twenty dollar bills...
...white-thatched Scot stood on a shaded platform in Oklahoma City, before 2,500 foundation supporters baking in the sun. Toward the foundation's goal of $3,000,000, almost $2,400,000 had been subscribed by 7,000 citizens. No donation exceeded $26,000 (given by a Shawnee couple in memory of their son); one was only...
...Great Sinner (MGM) is an expensive bloom resulting from some curious cross-pollination between Dostoevsky's The Gambler, elements of Dostoevsky's own life, and a few Hollywood afterthoughts. Like Dostoevsky, the hero of the story is a young Russian novelist (Gregory Peck) who is given to long gambling bouts in German spas, and to falling fits and visionary religious enthusiasms...