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Word: benefactors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thankless one and full of grief. I don't know when I'll get back, if ever. But it won't be until after the holidays, anyway. "I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. I've given people the light pleasures, shown them a good time. And all I get is abuse-the existence of a hunted man-I'm called a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Glum Gorilla | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...remarked earlier in the year, the flowers which might else blush unseen but by a few in the "Announcement of Courses of instruction". With this in view he has with few exceptions up to the present, been active upon his roller-skates which were given him by an anonymous benefactor in the pursuit of knowledge from New Lecture Hall to the marble grandure of Widener, from the hallowed dimness of Emerson to the fastnesses of Fogg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...first few minutes the film works up to a climax when bulky Jean Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) on the point of murdering his benefactor in bed, finds his dagger has been turned powerless by kindness. Thereafter, come only a series of episodes, each of decreasing inten- sity, showing Valjean's achievements punctuated again and again by the fateful Javert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...desire to honor the memory of John Barnard, 1700, a number of book-lovers in the University, under the name of the John Barnard Associates, have founded a group to further the work of the great bibliophile and benefactor of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIBLIOPHILES BAND IN HONOR OF JOHN BARNARD | 2/23/1927 | See Source »

...year held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night, a tribute was paid to the late J.W. Hallowell '01. It was announced that Chester C. Bolton '05 of Cleveland, Ohio, had been appointed a member of the Council in place of the late C.C. Stillman '09, noted benefactor to the University, who died last summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FUND COUNCIL HOLDS FIRST MEETING OF YEAR AT HARVARD CLUB | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

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