Word: impartation
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...Hooverizer of the South during the campaign, was established in a Miami Beach hotel to greet Southern politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover presence were ushered a few Southern gentlemen, ponderously respectable, eager to impart advice, to deplore the Negro's domination of Southern Republican politics. Infinitely patient, the President-Elect listened and listened...
...must then assume that diversity of intellectual appreciation, like breadth of social experience, is the object of the House plan. In other words it is expected that an art student, a mathematician, a football player, and a CRIMSON editor will gather informally in the new Houses and each impart his special knowledge toward the common edification. The smallest experience of student gatherings and student conversation ought sufficiently to reveal the visionary character of such an expectation. What will happen in the chance gatherings of the new Houses will be exactly like what happens in any present chance undergraduate gathering: sports...
...Instead, he held himself erect and delivered what all critics agreed was the most intelligently well-bred speech of either of the big conventions. He recited his friend's fitness for office in terms of his record in office. He offered him as a governor who had "power to impart knowledge of, and create interest in, government." He said, in an even voice that was more persuasive than any Bryanesque blaring could have been, that his friend had "that quality of soul which makes a man loved ... a strong help to all those in sorrow or in trouble . . . the quality...
...fragrant or emollient fluids," cried Dr. Gauducheau, "penetrate through the natural channels of the vascular system into the most distant tissues and uttermost fibres. By a refinement of my method I can infallibly impart different attributes to various parts of the same fowl, transforming a pigeon, for example, into a veritable symphony of flavors and a bouquet of delicate pastel colors...
...minister to Canada, telegraphed as follows: "The Foreign Service of the United States has sustained a great loss in the death of Professor Coolidge. Through his immediate and intimate knowledge of the political affairs of our country his broad and sympathetic understanding of their problems and his capacity to impart his knowledge, he had become a profound inspiration to all students of international relations. The official positions which he has so ably held in the American legations in St. Petersburg and Vlenna and later in Chili, Sweden, and Northern Russia and especially in Paris during the peace Conference when...