Word: donor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...construct a new world order. From Luther on, they sponsored popular education and the use of vernacular languages. Luther himself evolved a new theory of charity that prevented "a breakdown of the social order in the 16th century," when the medieval pattern of almsgiving for the good of the donor's soul fell into neglect. Luther told his followers that "the aim of charity is the independence of the individual; the helpless must be trained to help themselves...
...Only a few days after opening a mammoth $102 million building and endowment program, New York University announced that it was off to an unexpectedly quick start. It had just received $1,500,000 for a new student center for its Bronx campus. Donor: Frank Jay Gould, '99, son of the financier, whose family has already made possible Gould Hall, Gould Memorial Library, and much of the Hall of Fame...
...breath as it cleans your teeth had a major role in Colgate's history. In 1890, James Colby Colgate gave one million dollars to a school called Madison University in Hamilton, New York. Out of gratitude, the school's director junked the name Madison and replaced it with the donor's name. In following years, a procession of Colgates poured a steady stream of money into the growing University, until new, not only the college but its library, swimming pool, Freshman Union, and administrative offices bear the name of assorted members of the toothpaste family...
Family: Married, in Florida in 1934, to Alice Davis, daughter of the late Dwight F. Davis, Secretary of War in Coolidge's Cabinet and donor of the famed Davis Cup for international tennis; six children (four girls, two boys), the two youngest of whom will accompany their parents to Washington while the others stay on at school in Britain. A Makins theory on big families: "The second child is the Rubicon, if you can cross number two, the rest are easy. They raise themselves...
...practitioners have been awed by the terms 'blood transfusions' and 'blood banks,'" said the clinician gravely. "They have felt them to be either too complicated and impractical or too expensive for routine use." The speaker described how easy it is to obtain blood from a donor under anesthesia, and store it for as long as three weeks. "There is no substitute for whole blood," he concluded. "Proper evaluation and correction of the surgical patient's needs will hasten recovery [and] lower the mortality rate...