Word: bequestioned
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...this is an enormously expensive project. Such an operation was made on several floors in Building D in the years 1952 to 1956 with funds from the Joseph A. DeLamar Bequest of 1919, made available by special vote of the Corporation. The total cost of these renovations came to $1.1 million and they did not begin to deal adequately with the problem of the School's need for additional space. Even if adequate space had been created, the need for new wiring and plumbing throughout the entire system of buildings is indeed a pressing one, and one which will involve...
...into putting up $300 to start a research program at the old city infirmary. In 1943 it was shifted to St. Louis Chronic Hospital, where about half the 1,600 patients are afflicted with the disorder of old age. Kountz has raised enough funds (including one $2,000,000 bequest) so that the university has never had to add to its original piddling investment...
Furthermore, the Dental School faculty served gratis until 1929. A bequest of Charles A. Brackett D.M.D. '73, who taught without pay at the School for half a century, and a gift of John T. Morse, Jr. '60 led to the endowment fund which began to pay the institution's teachers in that year. Serious dental study is plainly, then, a recent development, but the field's trend, as shown by Eliot's words and climaxed by Conant's action, is no sudden offshoot. It grew with dentistry...
...executors were alerted by Britain's tax collectors to brace themselves for future bills totaling $670,401 more. Provisional total tax claim on Shaw's estate: $1,176,000 - which not only gobbles up his life savings but also takes what was left of a $200,000 bequest from his wife, who died in 1943. G.B.S.'s taxable leavings have boiled down to a futuristic $1,204,000, the royalty value now placed on his copyrights-pending posterity's continuing appetite for his works...
...estate that was set in 1951. The new figure: $1,680,000, subject to whopping inheritance taxes in the 70% bracket. Meanwhile, G.B.S.'s will was soon to get raked over in court. When Shaw died at an un-mellowed 94 in 1950, he had made a bequest to provide a handsome subsidy to renovate the English alphabet. A hater of diphthongs and illogical pronunciations, Alphabetterer Shaw wanted the ABCs stretched to 40 letters on a one-sound, one-letter plan. Tart-tongued Lady Astor took one look at her old friend's idea and pronounced it ridiculous...