Word: bequestioned
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...great prosperity, it went beyond the President's deficit-spending policy in forcing the nation to live on borrowed money. The expected deficit for this year is $5 billion (Harry Truman had estimated it at $873 million). The deficit might yet prove to be the most dangerous bequest of the 81st Congress to a nation which was already $256 billion in debt...
...children of John W. Hopper, onetime mayor of Neptune City, N.J., "and their descendants down through the ages to come" received the following bequest last week when his will was read: ". . . the knowledge that I, their father and grandfather, had no share, not even once, in the installation or perpetuation of the Roosevelt (F.D.) dynasty . . ." Hopper's will added firmly: "With this knowledge they may always hold up their heads in pride...
...professorship was made possible by a bequest of the late Mrs. Mary McBurney Gardiner of New York. The gift was from the estate of her husband, William Howard Gardiner, which she held for her life tenancy...
Qualification. In Adelaide, Australia, the Supreme Court approved Bachelor George Albert Wyld's bequest of $100,000 for a maternity home "for young women who have erred for the first time but on no account for the second occasion...
...eight weeks, 99,029 Britons had trooped to see the evidence - 400-odd paintings and sculptures that the Royal Academy had bought & paid for from the proceeds of the Chantrey Bequest (TIME, Jan. 10). Were they as good as the Academicians insisted? Or did they belong back in the cellars of London's Tate Gallery, from which they had been momentarily resurrected...