Word: bestowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wives who loathe the hostess, love the host, clearly cannot kiss only the latter. (Best choice: kiss both.) Professionally, what about the boss's wife? (Let her kiss first.) Physically, how to avoid the host determined to bestow a really really warm welcome? (Embrace his wife until spontaneity ebbs.) Does a kiss upon entrance demand a similar display on the way out? (Only if the host blocks the only exit...
Mark Mullin ran his last race for Harvard Saturday at Villanova, and ended one of Harvard's most distinguished athletic careers with an unforgettable flourish. Today the Crimson track captain will receive the William J. Bingham award, the highest athletic honor the University can bestow...
...biography seems patently disqualified on subject matter alone: William Randolph Hearst was hardly noted for teaching "patriotic and unselfish services to the people." But if such literal considerations guided the trustees, they stood on shaky ground. They had, after all, endorsed the board's decision to bestow the drama prize on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a Broadway musical that for all its merits as a polished farce hardly meets Joseph Pulitzer's injunction to "represent in marked fashion the educational value and power of the stage...
...believe all music made by Americans must be. Instead, it is full-bodied and vigorous while it remains consistently controlled. In Frankfurt, Dixon's style has earned him a reputation for playing Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms in the Germanic fashion-which is the highest accolade the city can bestow...
...annex and the Harvard Yard by resolving that "no Harvard A.B. be given to women." But creeping feminism has been the rule since 1943, when Cliffies and Harvard men began taking their classes together under Harvard professors. Last week the Corporation came to a logical conclusion: it voted to bestow Harvard degrees on Radcliffe graduates. Starting with the class of 1963, Radcliffe girls will at last become Harvard women...