Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Hurwitt pointed out that this does not accurately reflect the average gift, as many of those seen have deferred giving until later in the week. He said that the average gift has been well above five dollars...
...gift is the largest that has so far been contributed to the fund, surpassing by $500,000 the theatre gift by John L. Loeb '24 given in the spring of 1957. The donor would not divulge publicly any details of his gift...
Dunster has the highest per capita donation with $4.80, and Winthrop has the lowest at $2.20. Eliot with a total of $484.50 leads in the competition for the $20 gift in phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the highest total...
...Russell L. Holman and a visitor were putting their heads together at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, pondering problems of heart-and-artery disease, when an assistant offered Holman a gory gift-an aorta, nearly 2 ft. long, full of diseased areas. It had been sent to Holman in a fine Macy's-tells-Gimbels gesture by his opposite number down the street, Dr. Charles E. Dunlap Jr. of Tulane University...
...Christmas this year, Lockheed and most other planemakers, Continental Oil Co.. Diamond Alkali are mailing letters wishing one and all a very merry holiday, but please do not send any gifts to our employees. Boeing Airplane, U.S. Steel, California Packing, Cutter Laboratories, Morri-son-Knudsen Co. and Dresser Inc. have similar policies, though they do not send out a formal letter. Former General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice did not go that far in laying down a rule of thumb to guide his people but he did send around a memo that no G.M. man should accept a gift...