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Word: gifting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most graphic irony of Moscow's failure was epitomized in the picture of the week-a gift from grim Foreign Minister Molotov to dogged Secretary of State Marshall. The painting, by Russian Landscape Painter V. N. Baksheev, 85, titled Toward Evening, showed a peaceful wooded scene whose tranquility was untroubled by a single human figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Aftermath | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Under the terms of the gift, income from the $40,000 grant is "to be applied to the purchase of books and the giving of occasional talks on current modern poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Appears Tomorrow in Sanders Talk | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...appropriateness of Reader Claxton's gift is meekly acknowledged by TIME'S Cinema reviewer and researcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...Institute, which has no connection with Princeton University but is always confused with it, was founded 17 years ago with a $5,000,000 gift by the department store Bambergers. A school for post-postgraduates, it demands a Ph.D. as a ticket of admission, charges no tuition, grants no degrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oppy's Retreat | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Catwalk. In Morecambe, England, Trixie, an eleven-month-old cat, padded home from Mexborough, where it had been sent as a gift. Distance: 75 miles; elapsed time: 7 weeks, 4 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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