Word: contributor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Audiberti recently became a contributor to the Comédie Française, thus assuring himself of a sort of down payment on immortality. Used to stumer fare, the mink-and-diamond Comédie audience could hardly believe what they heard in Audiberti's play, The Ant in the Body...
...explained, "will be assessed according to the ordinary scale of contributions of which we pay only about one-third. Although the United States will buy about half of the bond issue, it is obviously better to be a 50 per cent creditor than an almost 50 per cent contributor...
Calvert W. Watkins '54, assistant professor of Linguistics and the Classics, has been appointed associate professor of Linguistics and the Classics, effective July 1, 1962. A frequent contributor to linguistic journals and collections, Watkins' first book--Indo-European Origins of the Celtic Verb--will appear late next year...
...championed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who felt that political considerations should heavily influence military strategy as the war in Europe drew near an end. "If the Russians also take Berlin," he wrote to F.D.R. on April 1, "will not their impression that they have been the overwhelming contributor to our common victory be unduly imprinted on their minds, and may this not lead them into a mood which will raise grave and formidable difficulties in the future? We should march as far east into Germany as possible, and that should Berlin be in our grasp we should take...
With its proffered $1 billion (subject to congressional budget trimming), the U.S. is far and away the biggest contributor. Next: the World Bank with $400 million, Germany with $364 million. The boost reflects President Kennedy's own long advocacy of Indian aid during his Senate days, plus Nehru's persuasive argument that his country is not only the world's biggest democracy, but also contains a third of the world's backward people. It will bring to nearly $5 billion the U.S. aid to India since 1951, v. Russian aid of roughly $800 million...