Word: endows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale, Princeton, M.I.T., and Pennsylvania will be the other recipients. The gifts will total $500,000 apiece, and will be used to endow a Donner Chair of Science at each of the Universities...
...between herself and the girls, got special permission from the Vatican to wear secular clothes. Many of her simple, tweedy outfits are homemade, and she wears no lipstick or jewelry, even on her fund-raising expeditions into Roman society. But some of the shocked villagers of Borgata Ottavia imaginatively endow her with mink coats and painted fingernails. "What will she make of those girls?" asked one indignant woman of the neighborhood last week. "Not good mammas, I'm sure." Nodded another: "The girls will all end up with crickets in their heads -thanks to the rich American woman...
Since Ben Franklin stipulated that a portion of the money could be spent on Public works" after 100 years, the trusses in 1891 turned over three-fourths of le snowballing fund (then $424,945) to Boston, which eventually used the money to endow the Franklin Technical Institute. But Franklin had also stipulated that whatever capital might be left should accumulate interest for another 100 years till 1991, when it would be divided between Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Last week, weary of sitting on a fortune that was doing nobody any good, the foundation's trustees filed...
...those breezy, mass-aimed, gag-and-garter comedies that now and then run for a year or more, Fair Game boasts a decidedly helpful production. Sam Levene is a deft low-comedy actor, Ellen McRae a fresh and attractive heroine, Robert Webber a likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses...
...bulk of the money raised, however, will be used to increase faculty salaries, to endow professorial chairs in the Medical School and clinical chairs for full time teaching in hospitals, and to improve research facilities at both the Medical School and the hospitals...