Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Colyer Crum, Williston Professor of Investment Management, said yesterday Bok was trying to ask a series of questions in his report, whereas the task force was basing its assessment on first hand experience...
...chair and said that of course these incidents are regrettable, and freshman year is lonely, but he has received so many letters from Harvard alumni thanking the University for its training. Here at Harvard, they learned how to compete in the real world, where no one would hold their hand...
...spreading. Particularly upsetting is the poor example being set by the White House. Among recent Presidents, Richard Nixon's script was barely legible, while John Kennedy's was so erratic that he seldom signed his own name the same way twice. Though Jimmy Carter's hand is clear, it seems almost juvenile when compared with the elegant, flowing scripts of early Chief Executives like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson...
...National Gallery in Washington (it moves to the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Mass., in late March). There seems to be no reason to doubt the organizers' claim that it is "probably the greatest assemblage of 16th century Iranian painting seen together in 400 years." Under the curatorial hand of Art Historian Stuart Gary Welch, several works have been brought together. The centerpiece is the Houghton Shahnama, or Book of Kings, in itself a miniature museum of the work of the greatest court artists of Tabriz, those who were assembled under the rule of Shah Tahmasp. There are other major...
Douglas' fierce individuality and his support of the little man grew out of a boyhood of poverty in Yakima, Wash. To help support his family, he labored as a field hand alongside migrant workers; he climbed mountains to rebuild legs weakened by polio. It was on these hikes that Douglas developed a love for the wilderness that he would later celebrate with dozens of books on travel and wildlife. Throughout his career, he would flee the U.S. capital to return to the Western mountains or explore remote areas of the world from the high Himalayas to the Dead...