Word: benefactor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party, Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina announced last week that he would not seek a fifth term in next year's presidential election. But, he added, "my presence shall not be lacking in the solution of any fundamental problem." Dominicans knew what that meant: Generalissimo Trujillo, self-styled Benefactor of the Fatherland, would still be watching...
...display board on which was tacked a postcard which read: "You are certainly the most extraordinary virtuoso since Paganini ... If you can stop the abominable jazzers' practice of playing the saxophone as con sordino [i.e., muted] and as disorderly as possible, you will be a great benefactor as well as a great player...
...Great Benefactor." Army instructors told Wang that the imperialistic aggressors were overrunning Korea and, if not stopped, would march into Manchuria and burn the villages. His knowledge of Stalin was vague, but the army told him that Stalin was a great benefactor...
Harvard Hall's present site was once occupied by one of the most ancient of the College buildings, which also bore the name of the College's first benefactor and namesake. But in the year 1764 a smallpox epidemic broke out in Massachusetts, and a prudent General Court moved to Cambridge to escape the worst of the plague. In the midst of the winter vacation, old Harvard Hall suddenly caught fire, and despite the efforts of a night-shirted Governor and Legislature it burned to the ground, consuming the greater part of the library, including all save...
...money from the will was being used to pay the Harvard faculty to give "Afternoon and Saturday courses for teachers." Three years later, President Lowell, a descendant of the original benefactor, formed the extension committee to run the present program. The committee uses money provided by the Lowell Institute, which handles the funds maintained by the will...