Word: bequestioned
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...even here it was hard to find fault, for the notion that higher education would make men over into a new image was the unasked for bequest of a society incapable of accepting its own limitations and yet equally incapable of removing them in home, church, or school
...Department of Classics announced yesterday a new annual public lectureship in memory of Carl Newell Jackson '98, whose bequest will make it possible...
...Study and Research, for example, can allocate no more than $10,000 annually to finance original work, much of which is rendered fragmentary by the interim nature of the Foundation's grants. Small departmental funds exist, varying widely in their limitations and availability. A few funds, like the Belknap bequest to the Harvard University Press, render significant services in aiding occasional research projects, but no coordinated machinery exists for aiding Harvard work on the frontiers of knowledge...
...spectacular proof that them as has gits, full-busted Cinemactress Jayne (The Girl Can't Help It) Mansfield, 24, added to her natural endowments estates totaling some $90,000, the larger part of it a bequest from her late grandpa, who also left $1,000 to maintain the chimes of his Pennsylvania (Methodist) church...
...pure alcohol and one bottle "of Howard County applejack (all of which went down the drain to avoid tax complications), he left a round $900,000 to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to build Shriver Hall of materials "the best obtainable in the world." And he tied his bequest down with stipulations that made it to his confreres "one of the most remarkable documents of our time...