Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with $50,000 to invest select ten young men and women from families known to be prolific, and let him set them up as five married couples in Ontario, on the promise that if any couple wins the prize they will turn it over to their benefactor. The sum of $50,000 would easily cover the support of these people, and a doctor and nurse to advise and care i them in a scientific way. Let it be announced that this scientific attempt to win the prize was being made, and other contestants would soon drop...
...Paris last week, grateful Frenchmen drafted a petition that Human Benefactor Briez be admitted to the Legion of Honor...
...appropriated $20,000 to found in Harvard University a Professorship of Greek Language and Literature; and that the desire of the donor was not to be known or named as its founder Votes of thanks for this, the largest sum that had been bestowed upon the College by a benefactor during his lifetime, were immediately passed by the Corporation, together with an expression of "regret at not being allowed to know or publish the name of the donor," and a prayer "to Him with Whom is the issue of all human counsels and efforts, to bless this design to impart...
...beneficence to the University; but that they are also satisfied that he would submit his private wishes in this particular to public considerations, and are convinced that this mode of perpetuating his enlarged and generous views is not merely a proper indication of gratitude to a distinguished benefactor but essentially conductive to all those interests of the University, which he had so much at heart; and therefore they feel authorized to adopt this measure...
...obtained, for Abby, a suspended sentence when she had been nabbed for the second time by an irreverent traffic patrolman. The city room of the American buzzed at the prospect of an old-fashioned beat: 'Daughter of Oil King's Son to Wed Humble Speed Case Benefactor...