Word: stipend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magnified by big horn-rimmed spectacles, explained why he had come to Moscow: "My father is a government clerk, and with six others in the family, he couldn't afford to send me to the university at home. Here at Friendship University, I not only get a monthly stipend but can even save half of it. Not bad for a start, eh?'' The Ceylonese continued: "It's a good thing the Socialists back home won the last election. If the pro-American party had won, they wouldn't have allowed us to come...
...priests against leaving annuities to female servants, a practice that could spur "scandalous" interpretations. But chances are that most Italian clerics, indebted to their families for their education, will ignore Palestra & Co., continue to leave to their families whatever they can save from their state-supplied $50-a-month stipend...
...possible. The recruiters are 900 faculty members throughout the country, who help nominate bright seniors for hard-eyed grilling by 15 regional committees of scholars. The prize: one year of graduate study at any university in the U.S. or Canada. No small change, the award carries a $1,500 stipend, family allowances and the full cost of tuition...
...Knox secured the English hierarchy's commission to translate the New Testament. From the beginning Knox assumed that he was to redo the entire Bible. This led to misunderstandings with the hierarchy, further aggravated by traditionalist opposition to the translation as it progressed. In return for a modest stipend for living expenses while he was working on the translation, Knox signed over his copyright to the hierarchy. At the time of his death, ?50,000 had been realized from sales of the Knox Bible. The monsignor once remarked "drily but without bitterness" to Waugh that no one had ever...