Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Librarian Hinda Sklar says more money is needed to endow books so more unrestricted funds can be devoted to areas like technology that are harder to raise money for. On the whole, she says the library is in good condition...
...call spirits from the vasty deep," boasts Glendower in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, to which Hotspur sensibly replies, "Why, so can I, or so can any man: But will they come when you do call for them?" Not always, certainly. But often enough to endow American art with the means of expressing something that lies deep under the traditional materialism of American life...
Rauner, who is 40 years old, is one of the youngest alumni in the school's history to endow a faculty position...
...tantalized. Being human will do. Think of it: what Dolly--fat, insensible Dolly--promises is not quite a second chance at life (you don't reproduce yourself; you just reproduce a twin) but another soul's chance at your life. Every parent tries to endow his child with the wisdom of his own hard-earned experience. Here is the opportunity to pour all the accumulated learning of your life back into a new you, to raise your exact biological double, to guide your very flesh through a second existence...
...sense of community is made up of our loves (and hates): our relationships with friends, heartthorbs and crushes, with relatives, professors and classmates. In short, we are deeply attached to all of the people who present possibilities or problems to us in our common struggle to endow each day with meaning...