Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With a grant from the Rockefeller-backed General Education Board, the center began as the most ambitious experiment of its kind in the country. Though its original nine members were skeptical at first, they gradually began to realize how much they had lost by clinging to the competitive tradition of each campus for itself. "Cooperation comes hard at first," says the center's administrator. Herbert Fitzroy. "But once you get everybody thinking cooperatively about one thing, they're talking cooperatively about 18 things." Eventually, four more campuses joined up, and though the center still depends on outside grants...
Steyskal, who attended the Divinity School from September 1953 to the following June, formulated his threat on the grounds that the University refused to grant him a professorship to teach religion...
...made possible by a grant of $250,000 from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, and will begin operation in the fall. Two Guggenheim Fellowships of $5,000 each will be awarded annually for study at the new center...
...Brattle has some preferences, however, which seem strange to its audience--notably an affection for German pictures, for old Cary Grant films, for the early Eisenstein movies, and for period pieces like "Earrings of Madame De" which appeal to a rather specalized taste for the baroque and the leisurely in movie-making...
...committee acted after turning down a stronger Asian-Arab proposal demanding that France grant Algerians the right of determining their future status...