Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Catalysis. Professor Hugh Stott Taylor of Princeton University proposed that U. S. industry endow a university to discover all there is to know about catalytic agents, the "marrying parsons" of chemistry, which cause other substances to interact without themselves reacting...
Harvard has many such towering figures in her past. Among the blackrobed figures that filed out of Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, there are propably men who will endow Harvard with the indirect approbation of their fellows. But in any Quinquennial Catalogue of Harvard graduates there are to be found names which are not inscribed on walls and gates, names which are suffixed by no honorary degrees, yet names which embody much of the best that Harvard stands for. And he who is optimistic about the future of Harvard College, he who believes it to be more today than an outmoded...
...Chairman of the Conference, made a gracious announcement: "Beginning immediately, women may apply for licenses to pilot commercial aircraft in all countries which are represented on the Commission. . . .* We have always been accustomed to regard women as ministering angels, even though we have hitherto hesitated to endow them officially with wings." Further Motions Carried: 1) The letters "P A N"* were adopted as the airman's code call for help, except in cases of extreme distress, when "S O S"š will be used. 2) The word "aerodina" will be submitted to all governments with the recommendation that...
...Houses. By the last will and testament of the late Seth Buddhimal, wealthy and pious banker of Sihora, Central India, there has been left, it was announced last week, $100,000 to build and endow in perpetuity three rest houses into which insects may withdraw from the world. Poor travelers will be allowed to sleep overnight in these bug rest houses, will even be paid a small sum for doing so, as long as they lie still and kill no bugs. Should a sleeper kill a bug, even by accidentally rolling over, he will be ejected from the bug house...
...private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works and for years trustee of the Jefferson Medi cal College and Hospital, Philadelphia, suggested that wealthy patrons endow hospitals sufficiently so that these could afford to charge patients only $2 daily. "Probably 80% of the people may be classed as people of moderate means. The other 20% is divided between the rich...