Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacks. He taught himself to read Portuguese at night by kerosene lamplight, hoarded scraps of paper to make sketches on. But the heavy farm work, plus malaria and amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family. The father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep the family alive and intact while he grabbed spare moments to paint-first copying calendars, then endlessly sketching his sister Yoshiko. When...
...Most Fatal Sin." Suicide was not always frowned on; in eight instances in the Bible*suicide is not mentioned in condemnation, and the ancients in the Hellenic times tended to look upon the power to take one's own life as an inalienable privilege. But St. Thomas Aquinas summed up the reason for the Roman Catholic Church's severity toward suicide when he wrote: "[It] is the most fatal of sins, because it cannot be repented of." Protestantism was even harder on suicides than Catholicism...
...member of the committee were asked if he considered suicide wrong he would say it was. Of course there are always exceptions. But in general, Christians-who are a minority in this country at present-would say no man or woman had the right to terminate life entrusted to him by God. There is also a feeling that to take one's own life when things are difficult is rather like running away in battle. On the other hand psychologists have made us more tolerant than we used to be ... To punish by fine or imprisonment someone who found...
...companies to form U.S. Steel, with the steel works of Andrew Carnegie as its nucleus. When Carnegie scrawled the price he wanted on a scrap of paper ($447 million), Morgan characteristically glanced at it briefly, snapped: "I accept." At one time Morgan controlled six banks and trust companies, three life insurance companies, ten railroads and a cluster of huge corporations. He and his associates held 341 directorships in 112 com panies with total resources of $22 billion...
...could hear distinctly the click and clatter of telegraph keys, and Tom Edison left home at 16 for the wandering life of the 19th century telegrapher. During the Civil War and the years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street...