Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Given by William Bucknell, a wealthy Philadelphia businessman who later increased his contributions to $140,000. The university was renamed...
...there was joy in Sea Girt, N.J. There, vacationing Comic Fred Allen, who last year lost a clear-cut decision in Hoo-perratings to the monster giveaway Stop the Music, said: "It's about time radio was taken away from the scavengers and given back to the entertainers...
...feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by breathing...
When Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin asked that the Labor Department be given power to sue employers for wages, Congress turned him down. In Manhattan last week, the circuit court of appeals ruled that the Wage & Hour Division of the Labor Department could sue to collect overtime even though the workers involved had not filed suits. Ruled Judge Learned Hand: "The [Labor Department] ought to have the power...Many deserving claims might otherwise be lost...
...Literary Detective Vincent traces Melville's track, Melville thumbed through a compendium of sea catastrophes (given him by Hawthorne) and recalled the Essex disaster of 1820, in which a whaling ship had been sunk by a giant sperm whale in the Pacific. One report credited the tragedy to the whale "Mocha Dick," a white killer roaming murderously through the legends...