Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another $500,000 gift of the Ford Foundation will set up the Ford Foundation Medical Endowment, income for which will be used for instructional purposes at the Medical School during the next ten years...
...Carroll, 55, whose chances of defeating former Governor Dan Thornton appeared so slim that the Democratic National Com mittee declined to finance his campaign, hung together enough votes to win the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Eugene Millikin-a seat the Democrats cheerfully accepted as an unexpected gift...
Another $470,000 anonymous gift received last spring will supplement the new donation...
...anonymous gift of $500,000 has completed the financing for a projected Radcliffe dormitory that will permit the college to provide housing for every student who desires it, President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday...
...first two years, the College struggled to get on its feet. It very nearly failed. The John Harvard gift of books and money arrived in 1638 to help with early financial difficulties, but in 1639 the first master, Nathaniel Eaton, was dismissed on complaints of brutality. The quality of food his wife dispensed was also an issue. For the next academic year (1639-40) the College was deserted. Many thought it would never reopen...