Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point where he is able and willing to take his studies into his own hands and push them forward with the joy of an intellectual explorer, without needing to be prodded by the inexorable requirement of courses and examinations, has received the greatest benefit which Harvard can bestow on him. One learns, however, in talking with tutors, that many students can never be brought to this point. The fact need occasion no surprise. A tutor is not a performer of miracles; try as he may, he cannot stimulate a student to do self-directed scholarly work of a high order...
...Long sent a henchman to Tulane to notify that university that he expected to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. President of Tulane's Board of Administrators was and is Es mond Phelps, part owner of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Board voted to bestow no degree on Governor Long. "Is zat so?" the Kingfish is reputed to have howled when the henchman brought back the news. "I'll make Tulane look like a goddamned cross-roads country school...
After a spokesman delivers an address in the new, Stockholm Concert House, telling why the awards in each academy are made, the king will bestow upon the winners the embossed diploma, gold medal, and check, emblems of the prize. At a dinner in the evening, the winners make informal speeches, while later in the week they attend a banquet given in the royal palace...
...impending shellacking. But sweet are the uses of adversity, and some clever alumnus, or someone else in power turned on the heat, and Miss Bette Davis, of Hollywood fame, rose magnificently to the occasion. Casting modesty, prudery, and other such doubtful virtues to the winds, she offered to bestow a resounding kiss in her best cinema manner upon anyone who should score for dear old Loomis. The boys rose to the occasion too. In fact they couldn't be kept down, and in a whirlwind afternoon routed the amazed Deerfield behemoths by some such score...
...Having commended in our prayers the soul of this most beloved man to the clemencies of God, we implore heaven to grant true peace to the Catholic nation of Austria and we bestow upon it and upon you the Apostolic blessing in the fullness of our good will...