Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey, in acknowledging the gift, called it "a magnificent gift and true expression of Mr. Loeb's wide and humane interests." Although the appointment of a University Professor is up to the president, it seems certain that the wishes of the faculty will be taken into account...
Bhave has collected gifts amounting to 4,600,000 acres, but his disciples can point to only 213,000 acres actually redistributed. About half this amount has come from landlords in Bihar state, who have given Bhave large tracts of barren land, and thereby achieved a spurious odor of sanctity, while continuing to exploit tenants on their good land. Criticism of the muddled organization of Bhave's Bhoodan (land-gift) movement has steadily mounted. Cracked Bombay Governor Harekrushna Mahtab: "Gandhi wished to abolish poverty; Bhoodan merely distributes...
Perhaps his greatest gift is his awesome energy. No matter how late he stays up at night, he gets to his office at 7 a.m. As mayor of Belo Horizonte and later as governor of his home state of Minas Gerais, he undertook extensive public-works programs-and carried them out. "What I start, I finish," he says...
...letter to Chase Mellen '20, the fund's executive director, C. Harold Berry, Dean of the Medical School, said that the gift would be used to meet the school's "top priority, that is, making more secure our teachers in the basic medical sciences...
President Pusey gave $100 to the athletic endowment, the new Financial Report reveals. Pusey's gift was the only one made last year to the Fund for the Maintenance of Athletic Sports...