Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classes under the Crimson banner, and the spirit of loyalty to the old school, are growing less marked than were their wont. Such a feeling makes itself most readily manifest in the failure of Classes of the more recent vintage to make good on all occasions towards the Harvard Fund...
Aroused by the growing collegiate element in the stage-door line, the dancers recently formed a "College Date Bureau," and the committee on admissions has issued a personal information blank rivaling an income tax blank in proportions. The five dollars will go to the Stage Relief Fund, it is said...
...most heinous offense, in Nazis' eyes, was to have in effect conspired to pile up in Manhattan a secret fund of some $100.000 which otherwise would have gone partly to other U. S. creditors, partly to Germany in taxes. "This Bernstein did," snorted the judge, "for purely egotistical purposes...
...Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. established the $10,000,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to promote "a wider knowledge of basic economic truths generally accepted as such by authorities of recognized standing." This week the foundation surprised cynics, who feared the money might be used as a propaganda fund for big business, by turning over the income on $1,000,000-between $35,000 and $40,000-to the University of Chicago. Not sure yet how it would use the gift, the university emphasized it had been given complete freedom to decide what truths to broadcast...
Some light on the failure with chickens was cast by Dr. William Ewart Gye, director of Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who found that even in the blood of chickens with growing cancers there may be antibodies in amounts detectable by chemical means. "A hen may carry a tumor," he wrote, "and have at the same time more than enough of the immune body in its circulating fluids to neutralize the whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside...