Word: endows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brightside Day Nursery. These activities are pie, however, to the educational job Solomon Guggenheim undertook two years ago at the age of 76. "I desire to encourage the development of the esthetic sense of our people," said old Mr. Guggenheim, and plunked down something like $3,000,000 to endow a foundation for "nonobjective" art (TIME, July...
...Orleans, Baron von Spiegel hastened to deny the whole story, admitted only that he had talked to a Tampa university "official" who "exceeded the bounds of courtesy," and that he might have suggested that the German Government would be willing to endow a German language scholarship. He said he knew of no Nazi-subsidized professorship in the U. S. but that he had sent German books as prizes to students of German in some 25 Southern universities. Tampa's President Sherman, standing by his story, snorted: "Why would I wish to insult him? He admits that I did insult...
Only a comparatively small outlay would be necessary. To be sure, no Latin Croesus willing to endow such a Center--as a friend of the Kaiser endowed the Germanic Museum--appears on the horizon. But Hunt Hall, previously Fogg Museum, is admirably suited for such a use. At present Hunt is employed as an office and lecture building, but the Public Administration offices it now houses will soon be transferred to the Littauer Center, the Regional Planning offices could probably be transferred to Robinson Hall, and the Naval Science classes might well be conducted in Sever. Thus although some outlay...
...parallel in the world. To create its like, it would be necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics for the Empire." Reason for Cavendish's supremacy may be simply stated. Cambridge and Oxford...
...TIME, Aug. 1, I find the following: "In New Mexico, handsome Governor Clyde Tingley halted a move to endow a hospital named after his late wife...