Word: endow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Sonata, Schumann's Arabesque, Brahms' Variations on a theme by Paganini, smaller quantities of Chopin, Debussy, Albeniz-such was the varied course which Iturbi chose to run. Because he had played Mozart with the Philharmonic, his audience was not surprised to hear him endow the Sonata with a cool, fresh beauty seldom equalled. The Brahms technical difficulties were topped at a speed which was never bewildering. Debussy, despite its mistiness, had structure, clarity...
...stands almost unique, as a department of the University that is capable of supporting itself. The H. A. A. is apparently not only capable of supporting itself but also in a position to endow itself, and of all endowments the gymnasium stands out most prominently as a material facility sought by Harvard men ever since Hemenway proved itself insufficient two or more decades ago. It remains for the Corporation to decide...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...
...Endow as he will, the present Mr. Mackay will never be able to give back to Nevada the color of its oldtime mining days, when his high-spirited mother, Marie Louise Hungerford (Bryant), widow of a shacktown doctor, ran a shacktown boarding house, married her Irish boarder and zoomed with him to riches indescribable. Today a Nevada "miner," before he makes his mark, is a smooth-faced youth in flannel or corduroy trousers (lately bell-bottomed) and a woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime...
Carnegie Institution. Ranking next to the $550,000,000 which the John Davison Rockefellers have given to social agencies is the $350,000,000 which Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) gave. The sum constituted nine-tenths of his fortune. To endow the Carnegie Institution of Washington he assigned $10,000,000 in 1902. After a special act of Congress incorporated the Institution in 1904, it received $12,000,000 more from Mr. Carnegie directly and $5,000,000 from Carnegie Corp. of New York, which he established in 1911 to maintain his funds for "aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning...