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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The River is dominated by one of the piers for the since-completed Fort Pitt Bridge. The pier has the quality of an ancient monument, and perhaps the giant Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: DISTRESS AND DELIGHT | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

For the past three years, Harvard University has diligently appealed to its alumni in a well-planned drive to raise $82.5 million. Purpose: a lavish refurbishing of Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956). Last month, still about $10 million short of the goal, Harvard went back to wealthy alumni who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Biggest Fund | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

An angel descended last year on unsuspecting Davidson College (enrollment: 920) near Charlotte, N.C. He was a lively, white-mustached angel with a resemblance to Teddy Roosevelt-and $400,000 under his wing. The cash proved that he was very much of this world, and so did his terms: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Why Wait to Die? Dana gets as much fun out of giving as he did out of getting. He was to both manners born, in New York City's fashionable Gramercy Park area of the 1880s. His wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

"I found myself with all this money," recalls Board Chairman Dana. "If you wait until you're dead, it often doesn't get used the way you want it to." Dana gave generously to hospitals; then (in 1956) he discovered small colleges. They seemed to him especially deserving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Halfway Giver | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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