Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight days he ransacked boxes in a closet of the servants' quarters. Finally, he had emptied the closet-except for a bunch of papers lying loose and uncovered at the back. There, the fourth paper he pulled out proved to be a Diderot manuscript that scholars had never known of before...
This week, at a meeting of scholars in Manhattan, Dieckmann told what else he had found. He had not uncovered the original manuscript of the Dream, but there were plenty of other treasures. He had found letters, notebooks, 31 manuscripts, 19 works never published, an essay by the philosopher Helvetius with Diderot's furious comments in the margins...
...boys of England's Eton, Headmaster Claude Aurelius Elliott was known as the Emperor. The son of a onetime lieutenant governor of Bengal, he seldom ventured too near his own little subjects; some boys went several years without ever meeting him at all. The Emperor was never ruffled when parents wondered why he paid no attention to their boy. "Unless he is a very outstanding figure in school life," he would tell them, "you can be glad I haven...
...found, are much more likely than men to drink merely to be sociable. Pointing out that science does not yet know how to tell the difference between a potential alcoholic and a drinker who can take it or let it alone, the Rutgers sociologists offer a tip to hosts: never insist on anyone's taking a drink; serve soft drinks along with the hard...
...recognized abroad; he is also an energetic Communist. Before Communism was outlawed in Brazil, Portinari once ran for Senator, almost made it with 300,000 votes. Nowadays Portinari lives with his wife and son in a comfortable house on the hillside overlooking Rio de Janeiro, but he has never allowed himself to forget or to lose touch with the back-country poverty he grew up in (he was one of twelve children in an immigrant Italian family of coffee workers...