Word: give
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 17 issue of TIME you give a list of people who have received honorary degrees at various institutions of learning at Commencement time this year. Among them is the name of Lou Henry Hoover who received a degree from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
...members of Congress. Congress adjourned, emptied Washington, gave white invitees a good excuse to decline. In the crowd of 3,000 only a dozen white faces appeared, of which only one, that of Illinois Representative Richard Yates, belonged to a House colleague. Congressman De Priest announced that he would give another musicale next winter to test the sincerity of his Republican friendships on the race issue...
...Quick to give quip and quiddity is the present Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some...
...years ago Daniel Guggenheim, whose Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics has helped U. S. aviation more than any other private agency, resigned from most of his business connections to give himself to benevolencies...
...Last week, his brother, Murry Guggenheim, announced that he would give $4,000,000 to establish free dental clinics for children in Manhattan...