Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raging between the advocates of a stone monument and proponents of a "living memorial" that will further war aims, with holders of every position proffering excellent reasons why his suggestion is the fittest and the most practical. But the University, in the midst of a slow alumni drive to endow the Lamont Library, may look with favor on a simple dedication that can be realized within a very few years...
...contribute to the relief of distressed Japanese if we will, endow food kitchens for their children if we must, but for God's sake let's keep them out of our colleges and universities. They knifed us in the back once and will do it again if it ever seems expedient...
Lowell, who got Yaleman Edward Harkness to endow the magnificent Georgian houses along the Charles River (see cut), was not very tactful with many alumni. He had a habit of throwing their letters into the wastebasket unanswered...
Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, whose ample baseball earnings (top: $70,000 in 1928), judiciously invested in Coca-Cola stock, have made him rich, gave $250,000 to build and endow a hospital in Royston, Ga., his birthplace...
...hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...