Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...years ago." President Compton announced that M. I. T., which in 1914 started the first course in aeronautical engineering in the U. S., was engaged in several important research projects for U. S. defense, would soon build a laboratory for research on airplanes with a $100,000 gift from General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan...
...gift of $500 to Mrs. Samuel Gompers, 57, disinherited widow of the late, great A. F. of L. leader. Said William Green: "No comment. We have been dealing with that problem for several years." Gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood, veteran of World War I, admitted that he turns over his weekly royalties (about $2,200) from "There Shall Be No Night" for civilian relief in Europe, has given more than $15,000 to war relief since September...
...Architect Warren did not consider the building complete. He wanted an inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta: Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). On the ground that the inscription was "likely to breed hatred," Architect Warren was overruled...
Yeats, in trying to give poorly read, faction-ridden Ireland such a literature, had to promote a writer's faction, to put the gift across. Because of his great natural ability and the sophistication he had gained from his literary associations in London and Paris, Yeats became the leader of this faction-whose foes, it was agreed, were the blackguards and fools who championed moral complacence, social respectability and badly written books. Among these foes Yeats circulated bravely and ceaselessly. With his long, flowing cloak, hair, tie and pince-nez ribbon, hawk face and eagle brow, he impersonated...
Following this ensued a discussion on the constitutionality of bringing the matter to a vote, it being considered by some, outside the immediate sphere of the Union. This objection was overruled and the actual debate on the gift came to the floor...