Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cracking down on the critics who had risen in the thaw after his own attacks on Stalin, he persuaded Gomulka to stifle the young bloods who had stirred Poland. "We are all Stalinists," he announced. "God grant that every Communist be able to fight as Stalin fought." ("We say the name of God," explains Khrushchev, "but that is only a habit. We are atheists.") To Westerners who predicted that his destalinization program could be used to topple the Soviet empire, he shouted: "You will no more succeed at this than you will succeed in seeing your ear without a mirror...
Leverett House will use much of the remainder of the Ford Foundation grant to sponsor House competitions in various forms of creative work and to establish a "creative projects fund," Master John J. Conway announced...
Leverett's Ford grant will also finance a series of departmental dinners to be attended by both students and faculty members in individual fields...
...School's building renovation program was assisted by a matching construction grant of $1, 125,000 from the National Institute of Health of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
After promises of cooperation from several nearby industrial laboratories and the National Association of Science Writers, as well as from Columbia's top scientific and engineering brains, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, ex-editorial director of Newsweek, Teacher Barrett got a $70,000 initial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a program to improve coverage of science. Barrett's program, announced last week: a series of fellowships that will give selected newsmen one free year at Columbia (plus $550 cash monthly) to broaden their knowledge and sharpen their reporting of the subject. Limited at first...