Word: conferred
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Yale University officials will confer upon President Pusey an honorary Doctor of Laws degree this afternoon in simple ceremonies to be held in Woolsey Hall, the Yale Glee Club Auditorium...
...write his facts in this slovenly manner ... On this day June 29, 1887, the Commencement Day of the Class of '87 misc. papers will be read to witnesses and then deposited in the door and the hole will be sealed. Any person discovering this Transmittindum in after years will confer a very great favor by communicating with the writer. May all luck be with each occupant of this old room...
Griswold will then confer the degree upon Pusey. Pusey will end the ceremony with a short speech...
...prefers a freer market is too much. Suddenly, reporters began badgering Benson with that ominous Washington question: "Are you going to resign?" As early as mid-September both Ike and his Secretary of Agriculture were aware of the power of the question to change the tide. In Denver to confer with the President, Benson said: "I did not go to Washington because I wanted the job. The President may have my resignation any time he wants to ask for it." Eisenhower told friends: "The way I feel now, I will never ask for Ezra's resignation...
Even the jeers, however, were moderate and dignified, and Republican Riegelman, with a roller canary's fierce, hot instinct for the jugular, left town in the midst of the uproar to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over the problem of U.S. policy toward Israel-a matter with some bearing on New York City's Jewish vote. The New York Daily News poll, hastily rejiggered to compensate for Impy's absence from the languid battle, showed Wagner ahead, 2 t01, nine days before election. But if the whole campaign had been conceived to drive...