Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mighty sea." Debarking, he and his crew eventually ended up-in Moscow, where Ivan the Terrible amiably "took into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with snow"), but the Eskimos chased him and his crew back where...
...Cairo a Saudi Arabian official saw Azzam Pasha's statement in the press, defended Ibn Saud's gift. "Why, this is a fine old Bedouin custom," he said...
...relief by evading the issue. He ... trusted in the natural benevolence of circumstances. . . . The suffering . . . was made tolerable only by his optimism and acceptance of evil as a necessary component of reality. The devices which he had originally employed as tools for innocent purposes-alcohol to stimulate his poetic gift, sexual indulgence for the love which it engendered-became narcotics, less adequate as their grip over Crane grew progressively more overpowering." He wrote his masterpiece, The Bridge, on two grants of $1,000 each from
...chair, established by a gift of Walter W. Naumberg '89, retired New York banker, Professor Piston will continue to teach orchestration and composition to University students. His promotion leaves one vacant professorship in the Music Department...
President Charles Seymour yesterday announced a plan whereby Yale students will take out insurance policies to provide twenty-fifth anniversary gifts for their alma mater. Each participant will procure a 25-year endowment policy on his life, naming the class gift committee as beneficiary...