Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country's need of great and thoroughly adequate law schools increases. In the Harvard Law School the Nation has such an institution today, one of the best in the United States, one of the best in the world. It is important to keep it so, and to grant it every facility which will enable it to remain so. Boston Transcript...
Exploits began before this latter- day Benvenuto left his rural play-fields (Newark, N. J.) to cross the game-infested Campagna (the Jersey flats) and seek his fortune in gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels...
...note book referred to in the grant," said Professor Lowes when the CRIMSON reporter went to see him at his office in Warren House, "is a manuscript volume of about 90 leaves now in the British Museum. The notebook was in possession of a school-friend of his, Matthew Gutch and was purchased by the Museum in the sixties. In my judgement it is the most important of all the numerous notebooks which Coleridge left...
...rail-road fares. We were even able to secure a reduction of from 33 to 50 per cent for individual travelers in some of the countries. Our attempts to obtain reduced rates on visas which otherwise amount to a considerable sum, were also successful. Most of the European governments grant visas gratis or on a reduced rate to our students...
...trip to Spain, made possible by the grant from the Milton Fund, is intended to lay the foundations for a study of money and prices in Spain during the period of the price revolution, 1500 to 1660 caused by the importations of gold and silver from the new world. Although Spain distributed the new stock of metals, no statistical study has yet been made of price movements in Spain, nor has there been any substantial study of Spanish Commerce and its relation to the export of specie. The task is so large that the cooperation of a number of research...