Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bigger: the gifts of Motor Magnate Lord Nuffield (by now amounting to some $12 million) to endow university medical research and establish Nuffield College (for public affairs and economics...
Comic strips, says Waugh, abstract bits of American experience and endow them with a sort of idealized timelessness. Dick Tracy always catches the crooks he chases; The Nebbs always quarrel; Blondie and Dagwood always make up. It is part of the American daydream, he thinks, to be as courageous as Steve Canyon, as sexually irresistible as Smilin' Jack, as honest as Joe Palooka. In his harried, uncertain life, the American newspaper reader is greatly sustained by the certainties he finds in the comic strip, the movies-and nowhere else...
...Reverend Frederick B. Kellogg, formerly associated with Christ Church, conceived the basic idea of the Foundation in 1937 and persuaded Bishop Rhinelander to endow it. Today the organization, which supports itself primarily by donations, boasts a board of trustees including such names as John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek and Master of Eliot House, and Mason Hammond '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin and Master of Kirkland House...
Self-Help. One-fourth of the company's 1,000,000 shares of stock will be given outright to the Liberian Government; a tenth will go to endow the Liberian Educational Foundation. As each subsidiary develops, the foundation will set up an industrial training program within the new industry. As the foundation's income increases, it will finance the training of Liberians in U.S. medicine and technology and ultimately help create a University of Liberia...
...marriage to a Navy C.P.O. While she waited out the six weeks that make divorce-seekers legal residents of Nevada, she got a job behind the roulette wheel at Harold's Club, Reno's immense, noisy gambling joint which spends some of its million-dollar profits to endow scholarships at the University of Nevada (TIME, June 17, 1946). She also enrolled at the university, which is only a few blocks from Harold...