Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radcliffe, a Kobe College Committee was appointed annually to make the sister-college contacts, and a "Cherry Blossom Song" in honor of the relationship was written. Annual gifts, sent to Kobe from Radcliffe's Community Chest, built up the "Radcliffe Room." An additional gift came from an Idler production of Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," which netted...
...Radcliffe Room is a large room in the social center, with windows on three sides which overlook the Rokko hills. After the room was ready and in use, Radcliffe added to its equipment a gift of two dozen cups, saucers, and plates bearing Radcliffe designs...
From payments already received Rutgers will build a $1,000,000 Institute of Microbiology (study of living organisms too small for the naked eye to see) on the campus at New Brunswick. Also on hand or in sight is $250,000 from the Waksman gift to be used for the institute's operating expenses. Dr. Waksman, on the Rutgers staff for more than 25 years, will be the institute's director...
...both New York and Boston Munch had spectacular success, and, unlike many conductors, his success with the musicians was just as great as his success with his audiences. During his Philharmonic engagement the musicians spontaneously got together one afternoon and chipped in to present Munch with a gift symbolic of their respect and admiration. And after his last concert in New York, they honored him with a cocktail party, something which had been done only once before--when Toscanini finished his last season with the Philharmonic...
...kind of automatic transmission in his mind which enables him to shift his conversation or speeches into language of such needle-sharp simplicity and directness that it can go straight to the heart and mind of the humblest and least educated hearer. This has been a priceless gift. Muñoz built his political career on the support of Puerto Rico's jibaros, the small farmers and rural workers who comprise about 70% of his island's population. They are still the bedrock basis of his power...