Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November 8, 1928, the late Edward S. Harkness, Yale '97, gave Harvard $3,000,000 to start the House system on its way. On January 14, 1930, Yale announced its "college" system, and also announced the receipt of a "very generous" gift from Harkness...
...hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation...
...mission to Moscow and the gift of the hat were, in their differing ways, typical of both the confidence and the affection that Hopkins commanded from the world's most powerful leaders during World War II. Roosevelt created him, then leaned on him. Churchill sized him up and unconditionally awarded him his respect and friendship. Stalin, Sherwood implies, was more frank with Hopkins than with any other U.S. representative. Harry Hopkins, the chronically ill, chronically broke son of an Iowa harnessmaker, a poor speaker and a worse writer, became perhaps the world's most important minister without portfolio...
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Paramount), a smooth-surfaced, creaky-jointed melodrama, stars Edward G. Robinson as a vaudeville "mentalist" who finds, to his embarrassment, that his clairvoyant gift is genuine. He feels so helplessly responsible for the catastrophes he foresees that he cannot bear to cash in on his remarkable powers. He disappears into the depths of Los Angeles, leaving his fiancee (Virginia Bruce) to marry his partner (Jerome Cowan). Just as he could predict, Virginia dies in childbirth and Jerome makes money hand over fist...
...Unless you speak now,' the text continues, Harvard will have a memorial constituting, "a tragically inadequate gesture." Pointing to the scope of memorials contemplated at Dartmouth and Yale, the circular states the case for an activities center and then concludes by pleading that "the gift be measured by the givers...