Word: endows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of paintings eventually will be made available to the public. It is entirely unfounded that I have arranged to build an art gallery at Washington. I have engaged no architect, have caused no plans to be drawn and have made no commitments to build or endow a gallery at Washington, Pittsburgh or elsewhere...
...means of increasing their tax receipts and of thereby being able to pay their debts, and at the same time to build, equip and endow hospitals for all communities, thereby benefiting humanity instead of satisfying our own sentimental vanity, I propose that a tax of 100% be placed on the cost of burial, starting with the wreath or what have you after death, through to the finished and marked grave...
...pass over Professor Wiener's sneer about the "journalistic status" of certain writers. Journalists must be excused for writing less and less about more and more, otherwise the poor public might lose touch with the profundities of modern research, and not endow the Great Minds with a lifetime (not to mention innumerable vacations and sabbatical years) in which to grow wiser and wiser...
London, Oct. 9--According to reports reaching the Jugoslavian legation tonight, the government will designate General Peter Zhivovitch as Premier to succeed Premier Uzanovitch, in order to strengthen the dictatorship and endow it with real military power...
...dismantled it and moved it to South Mountain. She commissioned scores from composers. They would dedicate them to her, give her the manuscripts. In six years her collection and her concerts had such prestige that she decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music by Ravel, Schönberg, Casella, Respighi, Stravinsky, Bloch. Mrs. Coolidge imported quartets from Europe-the Brosa from London...