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Word: vir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come a model of excellence. "All the Ancients used to say that the Emperor should concern himself with general principles, but need not deal with the smaller details," he wrote. K'ang-hsi dis agreed: "Failure to attend to details will end up endangering your greater vir tues." It is still excellent advice, for pipe fitters as well as Presidents with an imperial bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beautiful Bureaucrat | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

...Melvin H. Evans, 56, of the Vir gin Islands, a former physician and a Republican who was appointed to of fice by President Nixon before winning the islands' first gubernatorial election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New Chairman in Dixie | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

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