Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gift of $300,000 by Curt H. Reisinger '12, New York financier, for he establishment of the Samuel Hazzard Cross Professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures was announced last night by Provost Buck...
...strode toward the plane's ramp after the review, the Prime Minister was halted by a shaggy sadhu (holy man), black-bearded and maned, who thrust a bouquet of chrysanthemums into his hand. Graciously, Nehru took the gift. On the ramp's top, he turned and clasped hands in a farewell namasthe. "Goodbye and good luck," he called...
General Education and the college's scholarship fund will get a big financial boost from the Class of 1924's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gift, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...annoyance shared only by the most prominent young ballplayers: the gossip columnists keep trying to marry him off. Most annoying is a Winchell rumor that he is using his home-run cash to buy gold trinkets for Monica Lewis, radio's "Chiquita Banana" girl. He flatly denies the gift angle; he just has dates with her, as he does with Dancer Betty Bruce and Hollywood Starlet Peggy Nilsson. At week's end, the chief buccaneer of the Pirates was too busy trying to hit home run No. 53 (which he got against the Cincinnati Reds) to worry about...
...Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...