Word: schiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States have to come to grips with the fact that we are not the 'sun' around which [all others] revolve," said Samuel L. Hayes, III, Schiff Professor of Investment Banking...
Placekicker Craig Schiff (a perfect four-for-four in extra points) nearly hit the indoor tennis courts with his kick, boosting the Leverett lead...
Dozens of ancient coins, Babylonian bas-reliefs, Assyrian and Egyptian monuments, and Hittite tablets found a home at Harvard in 1903 thanks largely to the generosity of one man, Jacob Henry Schiff...
...successful railroad financier, Schiff began purchasing collections for the Semitic Museum long before its official dedication 82 years ago. His goal was to create an institution that would counter "anti-Semitism in Europe and America by promoting a better knowledge of Semitic history and civilization," he told a gathering of the museum's patrons...
...Schiff was considered the only man whose influence in American railroading equaled J.P. Morgan's. His immense wealth and power and his close friendship with then-President of the University Charles W. Eliot enabled him to gain a building for his collections on Divinity...