Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diets help stave off disease. Germany will be unable to provide the food herself, not knowing how long the war will last and hence how carefully, she must budget her food resources. She should, therefore, welcome the opportunity to have something done for her, and will hardly look a gift horse in the Mund. Furthermore, the amount of food that would be kept on hand by the Committee would never be more than would support Germany for over three days, so that Germany would not be able to allow a surplus, to build up and profit by a seizure...
...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...
...Received from the Inaugural Gift Committee (design and binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, who used 6,650 pieces of inlaid leather) for his Hyde Park library a special edition (estimated value: $5,000) of 20 cobalt-blue volumes, bound in French Levant morocco, of the Grolier Society's Book of Knowledge...
...most prized objects is the decorative silver gift bowl of Monteith, dated...
Outstanding pieces shown are two huge silver gift ceremonial maces, once the official symbols of the office of the Lord Chancellor in the Irish Parliament, disbanded...