Word: endow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, in a year. This fact became known last week at the courtroom in Somerville, N. J., where 107 Texans were squabbling for shares of $2,000,000 in the will of the late James Biddle Duke, brother of Benjamin. Thirty of the Duke millions were left to endow Duke University at Durham, N. C. (TIME...
...musically inclined student. The part of the faculty devoted to this subject is gifted: the Glee Club, the University Orchestra, and the Instrumental Clubs depend on student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Whiting concerts are visitors from outside that help endow the University in that art. Likewise the history and current events of music are here, to be had for the asking, or, as tonight, for the slight labor of attending a lecture...
...former left his entire fortune of some $5,000,000 to endow a hospital for crippled children. Now the latter has created a trust to administer his, variously estimated as high as $40,000,000 or $50,000,000, in the interest of mankind generally...
...gradual tuition increase or a continuation of the begging policy for American education exclusive of state institutions. The solution for the self-supporting student is in a highly developed loan fund system and increasing service and efficiency in personnel and employment bureaus. A college education is supposed to endow the average man with an adequate earning capacity which would enable him to repay a long term loan at a reasonable rate of interest. The injustice under such a system would be negligible and would enable the universities to be in a degree, at least, self-supporting them selves...
...Swedish inventor of dynamite, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, did not, strictly speaking, found and endow a "Peace Prize." Phrasemakers coined that term. It has come to suggest a shining award, fit only for such world-great champions as Theodore Roosevelt, who won it in 1906, or Woodrow Wilson, to whom it fell in 1918. Yet the words of M. Nobel are clear. What he founded and endowed was no simple "Peace Prize" but an award "for fraternization among nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the calling and propagating of peace congresses...