Word: giftedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Rothschild was having trouble giving away Rushbrooke Hall, the family home near Bury St. Edmunds, England. Two neighborhood councils had already turned down the gift of the 60-room mansion, which has 365 windows in need of washing, would require one ton of coal daily to be heated properly for a school or hospital...
...miles on the speedometer. The next owner was Peter B. Seamans '46, who was the brother-in-law of Augustus L. Putnam '49, great-nephew to the president and one of Post's roomates. The automobile, purchased from Lowell's estate after his death, was a wedding-gift to Seamans...
Alone Baker gave the School grounds as excellent as those of any other graduate school in the country, for his funds bought every permanent building that now stands across the river, including towered Baker Library. In 1925 he added an extra $1,000,000 to his gift when it appeared the original $5,000,000 was going to run out; and only last year an additional $500,000 was received from Baker's estate to keep facilities up to date...
...largest gift "for immediate use" to the University since the Carnegie Corporation gave $125,000 to the Russian Research Center last summer, it brings to $149,983.48 the sum donated by the society in the last six months...
Professor Arthur H. Cole, librarian of the Business School, upon receiving the gift, said, "Here is the labor-management relations of the past 20 years compressed into one beautiful case history...