Word: bequeath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briton who took advantage of the system explained it bluntly in a letter to the Daily Telegraph: "There is a little-known way of avoiding the cost and misery of a funeral-a way that enables most of us to be of more use dead than alive. Simply bequeath your body to the nearest medical school...
...recent years the Dukes of Devonshire have been fighting a rearguard action against the welfare state. High death duties were making it difficult for them to bequeath their treasures intact to posterity. In 1926 the ninth Duke of Devonshire did what he could to preserve Chatsworth by turning the whole estate into a stock company and signing over most of its shares to his son. Twenty years later the son, by then tenth duke, a crusty veteran of Gallipoli and France, negotiated a contract by which his wife and the Duke of Buccleuch, as trustees, would take over...
Rumors that Bernard Berenson '87 might bequeath his internationally famous library and collection of Italian paintings to the University were acknowledged with reservations by John Coolidge '35, director of the Fogg Art Museum, last night...
...worms. Similarly, if I had died at Athens, in the 5th century before Christ, I should have been quite pleased to burn up on the funeral pyre. Even today, at Delhi, I would happily be put to ashes, with the exception of my navel, which I would voluntarily bequeath. Forgive me for not revealing to whom...
...Widow Morse "to be the Sweeper of Hollis provided she be able to attend to the Duty without, drinking Spirits", the good Widow was given a room in the basement of the hall. For her end of the deal, she was promised that when she retired, she could bequeath the job to her daughter. The widow's daughter set a record of 41 years of service that has not since been equalled. Still in harness when she passed away, the Widow's daughter was honored in poetry by the class of 1835: "For forty weary years or more...