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  • "Bequest", provided such taking by them will not be in contravention of the provisions of Sec. 1403 above set out.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1917

  • "Bequest" and memorandum for the Barings, finish it in half an hour: nevertheless I will wait for your Letter, and punctually do nothing till your directions too are before me.

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Ruby's Bequest takes place in the fictional 2011 community of Deepwell where folks are sharing their stories, solutions, and worries about how to best care for each other, in sickness and health.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In 1958 he was appointed a member of the Felton Bequest committee.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Titled Ruby's Bequest, it's all about the future of caring in the United States.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Bequest of Henry K. Dick, Class of 1909, image Bruce M. White Edgar Degas's 'Dancers' circa 1899 So, the ballet pictures are not "about" a tableau of loveliness that ravished his senses, or sexual desire.

    Degas and His Dancers Paul Levy 2011

  • Brown for $3,000 [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, now re-attributed to Anthonie van Borssum; the Friedsam Collection; Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931; 1932.100.12].

    Caroline Matilda Sotheron at Sea 2009

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bequest of Benjamin Altman 'Young Man and Woman in an Inn ("Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart")' (1623) The selection spans most of Hals's career, beginning with the bawdy "Merrymakers at Shrovetide" (c. 1616-17), a densely packed image of revelers that pits a red-faced toper against a young blonde whose flushed cheeks accord nicely with her coral jewelry and elegant, lace-trimmed red dress.

    Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Brown for $3,000 [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, now re-attributed to Anthonie van Borssum; the Friedsam Collection; Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931; 1932.100.12].

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • The men in charge of the Perkins Bequest, why they did it, what they did.

    The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

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