Word: endower
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...give their legendary figure any unusual details which would identify it as a truly mythical beast. They do better later on, when the unicorn is temporarily transformed into a woman; the grace in her figure, her watery purple eyes, and the glimmering mark on her forehead replacing a horn endow the woman with a unique innocence...
Harvard has set aside $88 million dollars to support its faculty, and Columbia has allocated $136 million to endow professorships...
...greater source of concern to Quad residents should be the possibility that a genuine billionaire will reach into his pocket and endow North or South House. That's when chaos will truly reign, because this segment of the population is completely insane. Howard Hughes is no longer with us, for which students at the Quad should count their blessings: he might have rolled one day and decided to rename one dorm or another Little Balls of String House...
...dramatic and significant that a life insurance company would see the need to endow an academic institution. In A. Jackson `70 associated dean of the K-School said yesterday, adding. "This really means that we are cooking up an enormous head of steam...
Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University. -By Wolf Von Eckardt