Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift of more than $500,000 was made during the period; the gain represented a response from large numbers of alumni in all parts of the country...
Several new projects at the College have already begun with funds previously given to the Program. All grades of the Faculty have received salary increases. Several gifts, notably an anonymous gift last year of $2 million from an alumnus who was himself a scholarship student, have helped to reinforce the financial aid resources for needy students...
Thank to a generous gift from the Friends of Harvard Track, the varsity track squad will train for a week at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Thirty-five men, including three coaches, will fly to Florida Saturday morning and return on Sunday, April...
...discovered that the following words were scrawled on the paper: 'From a Catholic monk for a poor Protestant in Rome as a symbol of Christian solidarity.' I delivered the sum to the dean of a small Waldensian seminary in Rome ... He spoke to his students about this gift, and they, quite spontaneously, took up an offering among themselves from their modest means and sent the total to the abbot of a large cloister in Rome with the request that it go to someone in need...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...