Word: bequest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these reasons the Corporation should not have many quains about indulging in a little legal shenanigans to extricate the Council from its unhappy position. By shutting its eyes to the letter of the bequest, as it has unwittingly done for so many years, the Corporation can perpetuate the spirit of the Coolidge grant, and encourage the continued life and growth of debating. By insisting on the exact words of the will, the Corporation will only kill that which the bequest aimed to promote...
After a month of argument before Judge Michael L. Igoe, the jury received the case on Friday afternoon. Seven favored setting the will aside, depriving Northwestern University of the $70,000 bequest. Five opposed, among them Mrs. Katherine Merrifield, wife of Dr. Frederick W. Merrifield, professor at Northwestern. Saturday morning the arguing jurors asked for further instructions, were told that if they reached no verdict they would be locked up till Monday. Then the minority, including Mrs. Merrifield, gave up, signed the verdict, went home for the week...
Last week the trustees of hard-up Hopkins voted to accept the Shriver bequest, kept a discreet silence as to when, how and by whom the Baltimore Beauties would be immuralized...
These awards, of 500 pounds sterling each, were established by the bequest of Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in earnest hope and desire of cementing bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
Oldest lecture foundation at Harvard, the Dudleian was established in 1751 under the bequest of Paul Dudley, 1690, who bequeathed to the College the sum of 133 pounds, six shillings, eight pence...