Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Land said he will raise approximately $16 million to finance the new facility by ordering The Rowland Foundation, a charitable organization he heads, to sell 300,000 shares of Polaroid Corporation stock...
...Edwin H. Land '30, founder of the Polaroid Corporation and a major contributor to Harvard's funds for education in the sciences, Wednesday said he plans to establish a "center for scientific endeavor" in Cambridge...
Donald Dery, a spokesman for Polaroid, said Land considers the present time "too premature" to discuss any plans for the science facility's location or eventual...
Anderson, who as of 1970 owned more land in the United States than any other individual, and owned one of the nation's largest cattle operations, has built a reputation based on his patronage of educational, medical and cultural institutions and his rapid rise to power in the energy field...
...symposium, "liberated me from the incident." He was enamored by the purity of the light, "a light that cast no judgement, and nourished my feelings," that impelled him to eliminate the reductive social commentary that had characterized his work. At Cape Cod, Meyerowitz tried to transmit the presence the land had for him, the precise quality of air and of color, which he defines as "a personal memory: light with meaning." The dim, pale loveliness of damp sand, weather-streaked concrete, blue shutters on gray clapboard siding, flourescent light in evening air, sunbathers, a colonnaded seaside porch, tide pools...