Word: patronize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games, and gently asked schoolchildren questions about the numbers and groupings of flowers and beads that he gave them to play with. His investigations led him to detailed observations on how children acquire such complicated concepts and abilities as space, geometry, causality, logic, moral judgment and memory. Le Patron, as he is known to associates, currently presides over a staff of 25 at his Institute of Educational Science and churns out most of his books and articles during long summer retreats at a farmhouse in the Alps...
...Ford clan and sister to J. L. Hudson, founder of Detroit's biggest department store. His mother helped to found Detroit's first art museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where he found the giving useful...
...been said that when an ace muckraking reporter finally reaches paradise, he is greeted by the patron saint of ultimate rewards, who leads him to a chamber containing a typewriter and the files of the FBI, the records of the Internal Revenue Service, and the dossiers of all security-clearance investigations. The saint hands the newshawk the keys to the files and says...
...companion of Jacqueline Onassis. They met in London, where she is an editor of Vogue. Before that, she designed sweaters and scooted through Manhattan traffic on a motorbike, decked out in jaguar coat and matching fur helmet. According to her father, Ralph Colin, a prominent New York lawyer and patron of the arts, the wedding will be held in December...
...imperial paddyfield in Tokyo's Palace compound, stooping to cut the rice plants in an annual harvest ritual as old as the gods of Japan. Their leader, in a gray shirt and a battered panama hat, was once considered the descendant of the sun and is still patron of all agriculture-the Emperor himself. In a traditional announcement, the Palace reported that Hirohito, 68, and his chamberlains had harvested "a good crop" from the 350-square-yard paddy. Part of the sacred grain will be distilled into black and white sake and offered to imperial ancestors in the Palace...