Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duarte de Péron Social Assistance Foundation of Argentina had been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...
...nice party I had a nice time playing games. I liked the ice cream and candy and cookies and ginger ale. I liked the Christmas presents. I had fun with the magic art game, thank you for everything. I sent the car as a white rapped gift over to Europe for the poor children. see you next year. wright soon. Sencurly yours...
...scheme that cast a fine pink glow over the grim, grey postwar world. Foreign women who were genuinely in love with U.S. soldiers were assured a wonderful wedding gift, foreign adventuresses were so inspired that whole battalions of G.I.s came to rank themselves with Casanova and Don Juan. In all by December an estimated 112,000 brides, husbands and children had come from overseas to share the good life in Boston, Paducah, and Walla Walla, Wash...
Plans for the five story building began with Thomas Lamont's gift of $1,500,000 in November, 1945. Construction started in June, 1947, after the Dana-Palmer House, which formerly occupied the southeast corner of the Yard, was moved across Quincy st. to the plot between the Faculty Club and the Union...
...library is named after Thomas W. Lamont '92, whose gift of $1,500,000 in November, 1945, launched the project. Construction began in June, 1947. Delayed by strikes and record snows, the building was finally completed after 19 months of work...