Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge that Newfoundlanders' legal rights end at the gates of the U.S. bases was perfectly true. That was the letter of the British U.S. agreement drawn up when the bases were leased. Since then Newfoundland has become part of Canada, and Canada is not willing to grant, in one of her provinces, concessions to the U.S. as liberal as those that Britain handed over when Newfoundland was a colony. The occasional snarl-up of Canadian and U.S. legal authority rubbed Canadian pride...
...Harvard School of Dental Medicine, unique in its field for its combination medical and dental training, yesterday received a grant of $5,000 for an extensive study of mouth cancer...
...This grant, approved by the United States Public Health Service was part of a $689,685 award to medical and dental students throughout the country for cancer study. The agency explained the grant by saying that the knowledge of 8,994 students in 32 medical schools regarding cancer has shown a wide disparity...
Medical schools at Tufts, College of Virginia at Richmond and George Washington also received grants from the Health Service. Tufts was the only other Dental school to receive a grant...
Cinemactress Bette Davis, 41, went into hiding after asking for a divorce from her third husband, William Grant Sherry, 34. Bette's suit charged that Sherry, an ex-pugilist turned artist, had threatened her with "bodily harm." Said Sherry: "That girl and I were made for each other . . . It's just a matter of controlling my awful temper, but I know we can patch this thing up if we can just see each other again...