Word: endows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Named the New Fraternity Hospital, it is of steel, theoretically quakeproof. It stands beside the park where 32,000 people perished during the earthquake. It cost $1,500,000. The frugal administrators still have two millions of U. S. money with which to endow it permanently as a free hospital, containing 248 beds, facilities for 600 outpatients...
Announcement of the raising, by the Association of Harvard Chemists, of a fund of over $7,000 to help endow the Department of Chemistry, was made last night by H. M. Chadwell, Ph.D. '24, Secretary-Treasurer of the Endowment Fund Committee of the Association. The money will be turned over to the University, to be used, for the present, in any way which the Department sees fit; later, it is expected that the fund will go to the benefit of the Chemistry divisional library...
...chief merit of the book in the eyes of this reviewer is the negative one of restraint. The author does not endow his canine hero with complicated powers of reasoning and intricate emotional capacities, but presents a simple annal of his actions. The style is of a simplicity almost crude in parts but effective in the scenes of action...
...birth, layman, idiot, and fool," one Gherardhino Segarello, whose reckless career of devotion and debauchery caused him to be put in jail, led out only to amuse guests when the Bishop of Parma gave a banquet. Pizzetti had chosen to make a martyr of this squalid clown, to endow his dishonorable poverty with Franciscan splendor...
Cried David Lloyd George (Liberal) bristling wittily at Chancellor Churchill: "Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul! . . . He [Churchill] is robbing the whole twelve Apostles in order to endow Paul. . . . Any such program would constitute an indirect subsidy for the property owning classes [i.e. for the owners of farmlands and producer goods]. . . . The whole proposal is thoroughly vicious...