Word: bestowal
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...many students of American history know that the river was named by Prince Charles himself when John Smith presented a map to him, asking him to bestow names on all the landmarks? How many have heard the story of Goody Sherman's sow and its effect on our history, of the launching of the frigate "Constitution" at the mouth of the river, of the annual income of 100 pounds given to Harvard from the tolls collected on the bridges across the Charles? These and many other chapters in the story of the river are recounted by Mr. Tourtellot with considerable...
...Jews are to blame for the war. They are suffering no injustice in the treatment we bestow on them. They more than earned...
...after his confidence about the Speech from the Throne, the Premier answered a summons to the Palace. There the young King hung about his neck the Grand Cordon of Mohammed Ali-highest honor Egypt can bestow. Proudly Sabry Pasha proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his King's short speech. The Chamber was packed, and brilliantly. In the visitors' section sat beautiful Queen Farida, demure in a white veil; the jeweled wives of Egypt's aristocrats; diplomats in all their brocade; generals in all their braid. The King sat a few feet from the rostrum...
David K. V. Golding '41 of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Dunster House was named last night to the coveted post of First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa as the society's eight undergraduate members met in Lowell House to elect officers and to bestow the gold key on 16 additional members of the Senior Class...
...story of the man who, working from exile in Paris through his Black Front in Germany, may yet succeed Adolf Hitler by revolution, to bestow upon his country his own version of that disingenuous paradox, National Socialism...