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Word: endows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

First Marshal Gardner Cowles held that professors should be free to doubt, analyze, and wonder at every part of society. But Rep. John Davis Lodge of Connecticut said universities should endow students with enough strength to withstand "godless thinking" in the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '25 Holds Forum On 'Mid-Century' | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

...certain for some time whether Mrs. Harkness left her husband's will unchanged. Mrs. Harkness, 75 at the time of her death, gave only one gift to the University in the period after her husband's death--a gift to the Law School Fund in March, 1949, to endow a scholarship in her husband's name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College May Get $1,500,000 From Mrs. Harkness' Estate | 6/9/1950 | See Source »

...protest such an extravagant and indirect expenditure to attract athletes to the University. If the money must be spent on athletics, let it be used to endow the HAA and take the burden of the annual deficit off the Faculty. Spend it on a hockey rink or resumption of the training table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Varsity Club | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

...chief block to the proposed reorganization is the difficulty of raising $6,000,000 to re-endow the School. Divinity School alumni would not be a good source of large gifts as their average incomes are quite...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: Corporation Considers Divinity School Changes | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

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