Word: sponsorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen years later the House of Lords hesitantly passed a bill which merely raised the minimum age for climbing-boys to ten. It was 1840 before climbing-boys were legally abolished, and the law was still full of holes a small boy could get through. In 1864, under the sponsorship of the last, great champion of the climbing-boys, Lord Shaftesbury, the regulations were tightened, and in 1875 the practice was finally broken-67 years after Britain had abolished Negro slavery...
Victoria, not keen on racing, always kept up the tradition of royal sponsorship of Ascot meets. She once asked the midget jockey Bell how much he weighed. Staunchly, little Bell replied: "My master says I'm never to tell my weight." (He weighed...
...question of Germany's political future is decidedly secondary to that of Germany's economic future. Whatever form the government (or governments) of Germany takes, it will not be a strong one. Under either joint or divided four-power sponsorship, the future administrations of Germany by German must be restricted to domestic affairs. There will be no German army, no foreign policy, no control of heavy industry. At the May 23 conference, the western representatives must be prepared to junk the constitution for Western Germany recently drawn up at Bonn. If we are able to agree with the USSR...
...some years before the war, the University had such a group, the Harvard Film Society; it was run purely by undergraduates, like the Dramatic Club, and when its leaders graduated (one of whom now sponsors the Boston Film Society) there was no permanent sponsorship to ensure the organization's continuance...
Dean Wild will speak at a mass meeting of all grad students under the sponsorship of the Graduate Advisory Council. The topic of his talk is the results of a questionnaire which all graduate school students were required to fill out at registration last fall...