Word: bequeathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate reason for the proposed incorporation was that the Oxford Group had been named as such in the will of a female doctor who wished to bequeath it ?500. The matter went into court in London, where Mr. Justice Sir Charles Bennett was informed in an affidavit that the Group "consists of a wholly indefinite and unascertainable number of persons who possess no organization and no secretary or treasurer or officer of any kind . . '. and who are endeavoring to lead a spiritual quality of life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit...
...such that she must constantly adjust herself to rapidly changing situations, but we are satisfied . . . that Brenda Frazier is no flower of this season alone but . . . will continue perennially green--a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. And when time at last has overtaken her footsteps she will bequeath to life a delicate, pleasant memory through the recorded incidents in the life of a mature and mellowed beauty...
...letter asked each of us to bequeath the cornea with a pious reference to Mr. Harding being a Minister. The letter indicated that it was Mr. Hardings belief that death was a matter of a few days in the future and that he wanted his cornea right away. Naturally you can appreciate this was impossible to work out in this...
...Democratic In The World" as Democrat Stalin's propaganda calls it (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante), many property rights have been restored to Russia's "toiling masses"-and thus to the prosperous Big Red class which today owns so much, and can now, under the new Constitution, bequeath it by inheritance to sometimes pampered offspring.* Moscow correspondents report that the new top-class in Moscow is now feeling so secure in its opulence that at Embassy parties the wives of Big Reds are dressed at least as well as and often better than the wives of the foreign...
With no other investment except their native resourcefulness, the railroading brothers were in a position to stage what might have been the most spectacular comeback of their generation. Under the arrangement with their backers, however, they could not bequeath this potentiality in their last will & testament. Control of Midamerica reverted to Messrs. Ball & Tomlinson-principally Mr. Ball. Since neither of these gentlemen cared to cope with the discouragingly complex Van Sweringen corporate setup, they had to find a successor to Brother Oris Paxton...