Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant, Governor Saltonstall, and Mayor Tobin of Boston will speak at the dedication in honor of John Harvard, founder of the University. The generous gift of an anonymous donor provides for the new park and playground...
Last autumn, the Harvard Corporation accepted the gift to be presented to the City of Boston upon compleion. The park and playground, open for public use, will be presented by President Conant, chairman of the meeting...
...only about half what our editors spend every week now. And even when TIME was three years old its continued existence was still so touch-and-go that one week late in 1926 we had no money in the bank to meet the payroll until a flood of Christmas gift subscription orders arrived in the nick of time...
...reply, in effect: "Dad, if your check is still good, you pay my dues and when the war is over I'll pay you back." Also in Dad's possession was a foot-square slab of grey stone, a fragment of the bombed House of Commons, a gift from Parliament...
Author Forester, still doing practice work in these novels, sometimes sounds like it. Some of his asides about the Portuguese and Spaniards, who are set up, patronizingly, as half savages, are a good deal worse than mere literary botching. But Forester has a real gift for making warfare articulate to laymen, and a gift no less admirable for revealing, in just proportion, war's blend of honor, selflessness, intelligence, insanity, bestiality; for suggesting, too, the awful disparity between war's expenditure, war's result...