Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving a car now and shopping at the supermarket." Dr. Huggins glows with satisfaction over the successful cases-"I see a man brought in on a stretcher and I write out a prescription, and then see him come in again in a couple of weeks, hale and hearty; or a bedridden woman will get up and go to work. These are great changes...
...Westinghouse's railroad equipment made plenty of sense. Like his other buys, LeTourneau's earth movers dovetail nicely with Westinghouse equipment. By purchasing LeTourneau's major assets, instead of its stock, Boshell also increased his depreciation base by $18 million, will thus be able to write off half of it against taxes within ten years...
Then one day a German ship with five nuns aboard foundered in the Thames estuary and the nuns were lost. At 31, with the approval of his rector, Hopkins went back to poetry to write a commemorative ode, The Wreck of the Deutschland. When the editor of a Jesuit periodical rejected it, Hopkins decided never again to ask for publication. But he sent many of his poems to his friend and fellow poet, Robert Bridges, and in 1879 he wrote Bridges: "If anyone shd. like, they might be published after my death...
...English music critics, added Sir Thomas, they can be divided into three groups: "The first consists of three or four people who write about music in a scholarly, accurate, knowledgeable manner. After them conies a handful which write brightly and amusingly about music. They know little about it, are clever in avoiding the use of technical terms-and might just as well be reporting cattle shows. The third group is much larger. Its members are quite hopeless-drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing dropsical drips. All English critics, without exception, are timid and conventional...
...known to such intimate dependents as his mother, father, and big brother, pretty much calls the shots around the bigtop, even with interviewers from newspapers. "I talk English good," he said, when we were first introduced. "And I talk five languages too: English, my own French, Flemish--write this down," he broke off, pointing sharply at my notebook. "And, let's see, Flemish and Dutch and Swedish." began to stretch...