Word: endowment
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...tour made by Albert and David Maysles, I can be seen joshing with Ringo Starr at a cocktail reception over whether Beatlemania was "all just a con." This bit of footage, authenticating that I had once basked in the presence of a Beatle, would in later years endow me with a measure of heroism in the eyes of my three children...
Harry Widener’s father also perished in the 1912 disaster, but his mother, Eleanor Widener, survived on a lifeboat and went on to endow what would become Harvard’s premiere library...
...congregation devised several plans for raising the needed funds, including one proposal whereby the Church would offer local businesses and institutions—including Harvard—the opportunity to endow seats on its board of trustees for $500,000 each. Despite initial interest, Harvard and others ultimately chose not to participate, rendering the plan ineffective...
...lucky to find an excellent lead in Greg Gagnon ’04 as Dr. Foustka. Though Gagnon is particularly good at seeming small and meek—at several points in the play, he crumples up into an admirable fetus—he does enough to endow his Foustka with bottled-up menace. It is in his one-on-one interaction with other characters, however, that Gagnon particularly shines: though his initial dialogue with John Dewis’s satanic Fistula is a trifle stilted, the actors play off each other increasingly well, and his well-deployed balancing...
...grant, which was awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Monday, will endow a Center of Excellence in Complex Biomedical Systems Research. It is the first grant that the Bauer Center has won in its four-year history...