Word: bequestioned
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...three-story glass, steel, and concrete structure was built on funds from the bequest of Gordon McKay. An inventor who made great fortunes during the Civil War, McKay left the University 15 million dollars in 1906 with the stipulation that it was to go to furthering the progress of applied science...
...statue was to be erected in front of the new Marion County courthouse as a bequest from Carroll L. Moores, an obscure Salem janitor who died in 1938. Janitor Moores left his life's savings (chiefly real-estate holdings now worth $34,000) in trust for "a monument . . . in memory of early Oregon pioneers." Last year the trustee chose a committee (among its members: Director Thomas Colt of the Portland Art Museum, Pietro Belluschi, dean of architecture at M.I.T.), gave it free rein to find a suitable work. Renoir's Venus Victorieuse, the committee thought, was "universal...
Funds for the rink will come mainly from the Allston Burr bequest, previously allocated for construction of a new varsity club, now cancelled...
There was also a $250,000 bequest to the school from the late Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, but it is contingent upon Divinity raising at least $3,750,000 in its current fund drive...
...Frazier's cousins contested the will, and the contest failed. Secondly, Perryopolis, which was legally just a small part of Perry Township, had to set up its own government in order to comply with the terms of the will. Perry Township was hungry for a split of the bequest, and fought the division...