Word: talents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British-born Poet W. H. Auden, in a little prose flourish for Town & Country, admonished U.S. poets "to take topophilia [love of places] seriously. . . . Had I the talent . . . what lovely poems would I be writing now about Schrafft's Blue Plate Special, Stouffer's tea shop, the Brighton Beach line, the General Theological Seminary on Ninth Avenue at 21st Street...
...that Brooklyn's Dodgers had broken through baseball's racial barrier, at least half a dozen other big-league clubs were scouting Negro talent. Last week the Cleveland Indians signed up powerful, 22-year-old Larry Doby, an infielder who has been batting .458 with the Newark (Negro) Eagles, and leading the league in home runs. Doby refused to believe the news until the Indians got down to specific details: did he want to go to Cleveland by plane or train? Said Doby: "Just this once let's take the train. I'm excited enough...
...kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a jar country, "who called his own servants. . . . And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one. . . . After a long time the lord of those servants cometh. . . . And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents. . . . He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord . . . behold, I have gained two other talents. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . He which had received the one talent came and said, Lord . . . I was afraid, and went...
Last week in Bluffton, the day came for ingathering of talents. It was a smashing success. The Business Men's Association, enthusiastic about the idea from the first, had helped by endorsing a community auction and turning over all commissions to the talent drive. The four Warrens had used their talents to buy a heifer, which produced a calf for sale. Norman Triplett and Betty Caris had made and sold neckties. Larry Zimmerly had done wonders with his talent by raising rabbits. Altogether, the $2,000 in talents had multiplied...
...remainder, all local talent, will be living at home. Accounts of the Long-fellow lineup indicated that the commuter would no longer be Radcliffe's forgotten woman, despite the depressed ratio of six and a half Harvardians to every quarry to the Northwest...