Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stones gather moss but moss will not endow new professorships, laboratories, research projects. In the things that only money can buy, Oxford has fallen woefully behind. Five years ago the then Chancellor of Oxford, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, led in the formation of an Oxford Society with practical aims identical to those of a U. S. alumni association. Not until last month, however, did Oxford stretch out its ancient hand in an actual Oxford Appeal for funds. Last week, in a transatlantic broadcast, "Great Tom" of Christ Church solemnly tolled and the University's Chancellor, Lord Halifax, extended...
...Could Work Miracles (London Films). When, for his own amusement, one of the god-like creatures who inhabit the firmament of Author H. G. Wells decides to endow a single mortal with the power to work miracles, his choice by pure chance lights upon George McWhirter Fotheringay (Roland Young). No one is more surprised than Mr. Fotheringay at what consequently happens when, in the course of a public house argument about metaphysics, he orders the chandelier to turn upside down. The chandelier does so. When Mr. Fotheringay lacks presence of mind to order it back into place, it falls...
building is finished and available for exhibition space. Five-sixths of the museum's treasures are in its cellars, with no space to show them. Of his $15,500,000 fund, President Stokes intends to set aside two-thirds to finish the building, complete and endow its collections. The balance will endow the Museum's schools...
Actor Howard's blond charm and gentle British passivity have on occasion seemed to endow plays like The Petrified Forest with a brooding, thoughtful quality not indicated in the script. But, as those who saw his film Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...
James Smithson's original bequest amounted to $508,318.46. Other endow ments, increase of investment values, savings from income, etc. have swelled this hoard to $1,808,000. In 1919 the will of Charles L. Freer of Detroit provided nearly $2,000,000 to manage the art collections which he had already donated and housed next door to the Institution head quarters. This has increased to $4,770,000 bringing the total of the Smithsonian's investments to $6,577,000. Of this, $1,000,000 is deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest...