Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lingnan scholarships, covering tuition and room rent for one year, will be awarded to 15 American students next fall. However, University students, who before the war received credit for work done there, must now obtain Faculty approval if they wish such courses to count towards a Harvard degree...
...Most of VAM's job is done," he said, "but we will stand ready to swing into action again if he manages to regain some of his lost face in next week's Nebraska primary. That will be his law chance, and it doesn't look too good...
Thus far, only 24 topectomies have been done, as compared with more than 2,000 lobotomies. Results have been promising. Of the 24, 17 were schizophrenics, three involutionals (agitated depressives), two manic-depressives, two psychopaths (morally irresponsible). Eleven of the 24 patients are now at home, ten are working at their former jobs as clerical workers, machinists, other occupations; nine more are ready for discharge; the remaining four are no worse and no better. None died...
...impressionists made a bold effort to start afresh. They went into the fields, where perspective laws barely apply, and painted in broad daylight, with the sun behind them, to shake the tyranny of shadows from their colors. The best results, done in bright contrasting dabs of pigment, shone with a fluid sparkle new to art, but surprisingly enough they still looked like windows on an illusory world. The revolution had just begun...
Last week Quinn was summoned to Washington. Had he forged the department's approval? Quinn disclaimed any responsibility. Traffic in "approved" duplicate licenses, he said, "is a big business in New York; it's done every day." He had bought such licenses both for his own shipments, and for resale. He named half a dozen people who had sold or offered to sell licenses...