Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successfully performing a delicate operation called lumbar sympathectomy, Edinburgh's Professor James Learmonth was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order by the only man who can bestow the honor: his grateful patient, George...
...been pleased to send enough clothes for 600 of the poor children of Washington. Told that the State Department had no objections, Mrs. Fay Vawters, co-director of the Society, said bravely: "We are going to accept [the gift] with all the grace that God in his mercy can bestow upon us." Evita had made the most of her chance...
...social-minded citizens of the world deeply appreciate [your] principles of Socialism, practical Christianity, ethical Vegetarianism. ... It is indeed fitting that the country which gave humanity two of its greatest philosophical vegetarians, the poet Shelley and the great visionary Sir Thomas More/'"*should now bestow upon you the forthcoming role of a British Moses. ... On behalf of three million peace-loving vegetarians, I convey their devout prayers that you will not falter [in your support of] the fundamental precepts of world-embracing vegetarianism...
Last week in Washington, Elmira Wickenden, 57, became the first nurse and the third woman to receive the Medal for Merit,* the highest honor that the nation can bestow on civilians for wartime service. Said she: "This medal was not awarded to me; it was given in recognition of the fine work done by American nurses...
...even though the office is not permanently pulling up states, it seems a fitting time now to bestow a laurel or two on this group for fourteen months of a job well done. Since January of last year, well over three thousand assorted housing problems have been solved in one way or another; and the greatest crisis of all was successfully passed last September when a small army of veterans and their dependents moved en mass upon Cambridge. Moving with singular rapidity, the University promptly filled in the imminent breach by reconverting a deserted army camp and a hotel...