Word: endow
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...views of other faculty members? Would the letter of one student to another he interpreted as an attempt to express the views of all students? Certainly not, because the recipient would be well aware that the sender was not authorized to speak for all students. Shouldn't we endow the faculty with at least as much political acumen as the student body...
...Some men endow a hospital or put up a monument to mark what they consider a miraculous escape, but Anderson wrote a book, The Other Side of the Bottle (A. A. Wyn; $3), published last week as part of his contribution to the saving of other alcoholics. Longtime Pressagent Anderson did publicity for the Medical Society of the State of New York soon after he was dried out, became its executive secretary in 1945. He has pitched in as a director of the National Committee on Alcoholism to help doctors reach and treat more & more of his fellow sufferers...
Fortunately, Director Lean's sure technique keeps most of the picture crackling, and the Nicholas Phipps-Stanley Haynes script gives him plenty to work with. His camera angles make a pair of cocoa cups enormously intriguing, endow the villain's silver-knobbed cane with a menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many...
First Marshal Gardner Cowles held that professors should be free to doubt, analyze, and wonder at every part of society. But Rep. John Davis Lodge of Connecticut said universities should endow students with enough strength to withstand "godless thinking" in the world...
...certain for some time whether Mrs. Harkness left her husband's will unchanged. Mrs. Harkness, 75 at the time of her death, gave only one gift to the University in the period after her husband's death--a gift to the Law School Fund in March, 1949, to endow a scholarship in her husband's name...