Word: endowment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been learned (by Science Service) that the "secret chemical" rumored during the War to have been given German soldiers to endow them with supernormal energy was sodium dihydrogen phosphate. This salt was administered in the form of a drink to the shock troops as they entered battle or during long marches. For psychological reasons other battalions were served with a sham stimulant at the same time, acidulated with tartaric instead of phosphoric acid...
...established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year to go on with the campaign, which has already secured more than $50,000; and that the Associated Harvard Clubs establish an employment service with a central...
Woman's determination to cash in on the phrase " With all my worldly goods I thee endow...
...Making use of the shops and laboratories of Schenectady, it promises to become one of the best technical centres in the world. Rochester University, after fifty years of slow progress, has begun to leap forward amazingly. Since 1918 George Eastman has given it $4,500,000 to build and endow what should be one of the first schools of music anywhere. Last year the university obtained $4,000,000 from Mr. Eastman, $5,000,000 from the General Education Board, and $1,500,000 from another source for a school of medicine, surgery and dentistry...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock at Symphony Hall, Dr. William T. Grenfell will speak, some remarkable moving pictures of life in Labrador and Newfoundland will be shown and the University Glee Club will sing. This meeting will be held for the express purpose of helping to endow the chain of hospitals serving deep-sea fishermen...