Word: imparted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conceived to meet the needs of the educated woman in our society," he continued. President Jordan opined that married women require a greater degree of adaptability of mind and flexibility of talent than do their husbands, and that these are the qualities that the General Education program seeks to impart...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...Dressing-up. "Just now, not a few of the reverends are at a loss to know how even to carry on the routine . . . They do not know that Christianity has no new message and that the Christian message is always a dangerous thing to impart. But one should not blame them for their sincere uncertainties. The message needs a new dressing-up, and this new dressing-up is in their own Christian living. They need a careful re-education...
...long tour (nine months in the Antipodes) of Sir Laurence Olivier and his Lady, Vivian Leigh, came to an end at Tilbury Docks, with the most adroit curtain call of the week. The veteran troupers managed to impart a little of their own sure charm to what would otherwise have been a routine ship-news photograph...
Like most other institutions of higher learning, Harvard relies on lectures, discussion in section meetings, and assigned reading to impart knowledge to the individual student. The efficacy of the system of instruction usually isn't questioned. It's all taken for granted. Yet at least one part of it--the lecture system--while it may be the best available, is certainly not without its drawbacks. Why should anywhere from 30 to 400 students crowd into stuffy, hot, uncomfortable lecture rooms to hear a professor who may stutter, speak indistinctly, be ill at ease, and in general be much less effective...