Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to be damned for the works of maturity, and to be praised for his youthful foibles. But, said Chirico, to put up with the "handiwork of an unskilled copyist, the output of a veritable mill...
Chile's brightest hopes lie in the half-Socialist, half-RFC Development Corporation, whose projects-a major steel mill, the Spring Hill oilfield, a copper processing plant, a new fishing industry-could in the long run raise the level of production. But the Chilean man in the street looked for action now. He would look to the new President...
...reasonably, but any luxury sells at outrageous prices, largely because of the sale tax. The average cost of a new British automobile, smaller and less powerful than the smallest Chevvy or Ford, runs about three thousand dollars. Concomitantly, wages are ridiculously low according to our standards. A skilled rayon mill weaver or wool spinning worker makes between twelve and fifteen dollars a week--wages long since vanished from the American scene...
...hummed arias as she sewed for Westchester County suburbanites in the Mattie Bowe Dressmaking Establishment. While pinning a dress on a customer one day, she sang the Depnis le Jour aria from Gustave Charpentier's Louise, an opera whose heroine is a seamstress. The customer, Louise Crane, paper mill heiress, daughter of Massachusetts' late wealthy Governor Winthrop Murray Crane, offered to finance her voice lessons...
Emerson, Anne Sullivan and the good and great teachers in between were all masters of the mental stretch. Near the top was James Mill, whose son and pupil, John Stuart Mill, tells how he began learning Greek at three and Latin at eight. Observes J.S.: "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does...