Word: furnishing
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Yesterday the heavies cleared the last obstacle other than that of finances when all the oarsmen announced they could go. The Friends of Harvard Rowing have already agreed to furnish a substantial share of the approximately $9,000 needed for each crew. The only question remaining is whether the oarsmen and their families can provide sufficient funds...
...April 27]. But regret that this feature of a semiannual meeting of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church was described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real concern...
Conant said that a state "academic inventory" would "furnish the facts upon which parental action at the local level will be based." He counted on knowledge of the schools' quality to stimulate local pride and inter-city competition...
Casa Ricordi owns an estimated 150,000 pieces of original sheet music, can furnish scores and orchestral parts of 2,000 operas and 500 symphonies. The firm discovered, nurtured and financed virtually every major composing talent in Italian opera, e.g., Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, many of whose original manuscripts, for safekeeping, now lie crammed into 17 zinc cases, 45 feet below ground in a Milan bank. The House of Ricordi still publishes the works of many of the world's leading composers, including Francis Poulenc, Gian Carlo Menotti, Edgard Varese. Now 151 years old, the firm is making news...
Approximately six personal gifts totalling $20.5 million should furnish much of the needed money. Fund raisers expect both alumni and non-alumni sources to provide these gifts. "We hope we can uncover for Harvard the same kind of gift represented by Mr. Mellon's $15 million contribution to Yale," the public relations director said...