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Word: endowment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean David's main concern these days is raising the full $20,000,000 for "stabilizing and consolidating." The full $20,000,000 would endow another classroom building, a social and eating center, and provide an annual income for research and instruction...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Business School, Grown Through 41 Years, Feeds the Country with Leading Executives | 12/1/1949 | See Source »

...Union's free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs. To establish and endow Cooper Union, its founder had given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free of Charge | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Then, asking the Senate to join him, Barkley prayed: "Lord, in these days of uncertainty, we ask for and thank Thee for the boon of Thy guidance and direction. Endow us with wisdom and light to see the path of our duty, and courage to keep our feet within it. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Every Man's Prerogative | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...University could conceivably bring a civil action to get back the money it lost, by attaching the King's salary from Collier's. More than 30 years' interest added to the $678.67 might make it worth a try. Maybe endow a small chair in Criminology...

Author: By David G. Braaten, | Title: Author - Thief Lists $100,000 Harvard Haul | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...into Chicago's progressive Frances W. Parker School, sent $100 to the family of each of the in victims of the 1947 Centralia mine disaster, tossed some $50,000 into Wallace's campaign collection plates last fall, and donated a round $1,000,000 to endow the new, leftist Foundation for World Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Angel in the Wings | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

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