Word: gifted
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Sears' gift to the university was engineered by U.C.'s kinetic Vice President William Benton. Bill Benton is famed in the advertising world as the onetime chairman of Benton & Bowles and the man who said he would make a fortune and quit-and did. He came by his yearning for learning naturally: both his father and his mother were university professors. He sees the Britannica as a logical adjunct to U.C., which has always had a flair for combining scholarship with good publicity...
Fury & Flavor. Giraud's memorandum deals with France. His explanation has the fury of a puritan, the gift of shrewd observation, the introspection of a fervent nationalist, the conservatism of the French officers' class...
...force in the story, but the girl's reward. . . . There is, the American legend, tells [her] a good-looking man with dough, who will put an end to the onerous tedium of making a living. . . . The idea women have that life is marshmallows which will come as a gift . . . has defeated half the husbands in America. ... It is as responsible for the absurdity of keeping up with the Joneses as the bare instinct toward conformity. ... It long ago became associated with the notion that the bearing of children was such an unnatural and hideous ordeal that the mere...
Convinced that college social as well as intellectual life had "disintegrated," Lowell conceived Harvard's system of "Houses," modeled after Oxford's colleges. In 1932, with a gift of $13,000,000 from Yaleman Edward Stephen Harkness,* Harvard finished its group of seven redbrick, white-spired Georgian social nuclei, each with its own library, tutors and dining-hall...
...Yale refused a gift for similar purposes from Alumnus Harkness until Mr. Lowell had take...