Word: giftedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
Most Southerner consider Harvard a hotbed of dangerous radical thought. Some would go so far as to say that when a Southern gentleman allows his young'uns to go to Cambridge, it's the South's gift to Joe Stalin. Crimson, to them, is not merely a school color...
...Crimson played a rough, fast game. Tech had gift foul tries time and time again but missed consistently...
...endowment today consists of a mass of gifts, legacies, chairs, scholarships, prizes, and bequests, coming from special foundations, corporations, alumni, "friends", and persons never heard of in University Hall until they died. The donations vary in size from several million dollars to one capital gift received last year by the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports for $9.11. Most of the gifts are tied to specific departments and projects, ranging from the Botanical Museum's Oakes Ames Fund for Orchidology to Stillman Infirmary's Free Bed Fund of the Class of 1868. They continue to pour in every year...
Make no mistake about it: the undergraduate critics of the Committee's actions have had no illusions that they themselves are a significant part of that constituency. The war memorial will be an alumni gift to the University; whatever it is the generosity and spirit which have prompted the proffering will find ready appreciation. The dissenters simply insist that the expressed position of the student bodies at the College and the major graduate schools against the plaque-scholarship combination should properly carry great weight as Alumni make up their minds. It is on this basis that the proponents...