Word: seventieth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kirstein Felowship, to promote "scientific medical education," was established through a gift of $28,550 made last fall to the University by eighty-nine friends of Mr. Kirstein, Vice-President of William Fileno's Sons Company, in honor of his seventieth birthday and in recognition "of their affection for him as a man and their admiration of him as a humanitarian...
...however, emotion overcame him. Dumbly, the fierce-faced old man clasped his wife in his arms, expressed in a long embrace feelings he could not utter. The old man was Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, most famous of present-day composers and "Uncrowned King of Finland"; the occasion was his seventieth birthday...
...honor of his seventieth birthday, 89 friends of Louis E. Kirstein, Boston merchant and holder of an honorary Harvard degree, have given $28,550 to the University to promote scientific medical education, it was announced Tuesday...
Beyond 1912, there is 1887 with its fiftieth, 1867 with its seventieth, 1927 with its tenth. There are the fortieths, the thirtieths, the twentieths, and those which might be called as a group the sundries, and finally 1936 which stages its first reunion...
...result of this interest he established a foundation on his seventieth birthday in 1929, endowing it with $1,100,000, the income and capital of which was to be used without restriction "to enlarge the realms of human knowledge, to promote the general, moral, mental, and physical improvement of society so that the sum total of human welfare and wisdom may be increased and the cause of better understanding among all mankind promoted...