Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That there would be plenty to look at was indicated by the political waves already spreading from the $2,500 cash gift from Superior Oil Co. Lobbyist John Neff to South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case, which Case rejected. Items...
...asked Beaverbrook if he could borrow the sum and repay it out of salary. Next day the general manager summoned the journalist and told him that there was a strict office rule against such advances. "But," he added, "Lord Beaverbrook has instructed me to make you a free gift of ?1,000. Here is a check." Biographer Driberg praised this act of kindness for the unidentified newsman. Footnoted the Beaver dryly: "Mr. Driberg was the employee concerned...
...additions include a gift from the Yale University Library, the "Astronomia Instaurata" of Copernicius, once owned by the first president of Harvard, Henry Dunster. This edition, printed in Amsterdam in 1617, presents Copernicus' theory of a sun-centered planetary system...
...stone's throw from its "collegiate Gothic" Green Hall, Wellesley College will put up two ultramodern buildings containing a 350-seat combined theater, lecture and recital hall and a gallery for art exhibitions. The gift of Spokane Lumber Tycoon George Frederick Jewett and his wife (Wellesley '23 and a trustee of the college) and their son and daughter, the buildings will form the Jewett Art, Music and Theater Center. Said President Margaret Clapp of the gift: "Aware of the challenge which automation will present to the good use of leisure time, and aware that women educated through...
...Grant Foundation has given Phillips Brooks House $3000 for an urgently needed station wagon. The gift from the Grant stores came in response to an appeal by PBH to eleven different foundations...