See endowment on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791)",
"text": "I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments."
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"ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 8:",
"text": "Thus it was with Henrietta. She knew more of the world than most women of her years; for her converse had been chiefly with her uncle, a man of remarkable endowments: and she had read an infinite variety of book—read them, too, with that quick perception which seizes motive and meaning with intuitive accuracy.",
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"ref": "1958, Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the United Parents Association",
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"ref": "1980, Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture, page 230:",
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"ref": "1985 May 11, Jonas Salk, Interview on, The Open Mind:",
"text": "What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment.",
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"ref": "2006, Natalie R. Collins, Wives and Sisters, page 54:",
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"ref": "1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland",
"text": "Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all \"monopolizing and aristocratic Arts\" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling."
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"text": "1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey\nI seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness."
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"text": "Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.",
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