Word: pews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to train a super cohort who can lead the difficult school systems," said Deidra A. Lyngard, the communications manager for Pew Charitable Trusts, the Philadelphia based foundation which granted $270,000 for the program...
There is, of course, plenty of strangeness here: Gould rehearsing a children's choir while crouched in a pew, nothing visible but his hand; Gould serenading the elephants at the Toronto zoo by singing them Mahler at dawn. Yet at play within him was something deeper than mere oddity. Able to read music before he could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most...
...from numerous prestigious collections around the world; among these are the National Gallery in London and the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Royal Library, Windsor Castle). The exhibition and accompanying catalogue by Cropper were made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
Although networks have donated time to the project's anti-drunk driving campaign, other financial concerns have been eased by grants from the Max Factor Family Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trust and the Commonwealth Fund totalling $1,000,000 over three years...
...that donated Hollis Hall, the system is based on a program that Harvard bought from Northwestern University and spent years customizing. Although the total cost of creating and implementing the system has not been calculated, much of the funding came from a 1983 grant of $1.2 million from the Pew Memorial Trust. HOLLIS first went on-line in 1985 when the libraries began using it to keep track of new acquisitions...