What's the difference between bequest and smithsonian?
Bequest
Definition:
(n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
(n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
(v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It showed how less than 40% of the cohort born in the 1930s have received or expect to receive a bequest, while for those born in the 1970s the figure is 75%.
(2) Log-linear modeling of inheritance attitudes shows that living with married children, lower educational attainment, and living in a traditionally agricultural area are associated with favoring bequests to eldest sons, as opposed to bequests to all children equally or to whoever takes care of the elderly person.
(3) The bequest paintings are in Twombly's distinctive swirling calligraphic style.
(4) Even Gordon Brown, who has a foot in both camps, was moved to congratulate d'Offay's exemplary 'bequest'.
(5) Similar sums were raised by the National Gallery in London from bequests, gifts and private donors rumoured to include the Getty Foundation.
(6) A bequest to the party worth almost £770,000 was among more than £4.8m received in donations in the fourth quarter of 2013.
(7) The bulk will go to the Save the Children fund in India, with smaller bequests to a science and religion group that is studying the effects of Buddhist practice and to a project to train Buddhist monks as scientists.
(8) Books were regularly ordered from William Strahan in London, and gifts and bequests added still more volumes.
(9) The Pulitzers have been bestowed since 1917, at the bequest of the legendary newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer who established the honour in his will as a means of encouraging publicly-spirited journalism.
(10) But Meles's authoritarianism attracted the frequent censure of human rights groups, and such concerns will inevitably temper assessments of his bequest to Ethiopia .
(11) Beryl Wilkins, a local historian, lives a stone's throw from a former school built in 1624 as a bequest from the lord of the manor, Lord Knyvett – the man, she says, who felt the collar of one Guy Fawkes.
(12) This article describes the two international fellowship programs administered by the International Cooperation Committee of the Medical Library Association: (1) the program supported by the Rockfeller Foundation from 1948 to 1963; (2) the Eileen R. Cunningham program, supported by Mrs. Cunningham's bequest to the association, from 1971 to date.
(13) It’s not exactly new: more than a century ago, in his Gospel of Wealth, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie sought to steer millionaires away from the charitable bequest toward warm-blooded inter vivos giving.
(14) The questionnaire sought information on sex, marital status, age, occupation at the time of bequest and bequest information source, as well as reasons for the bequest, expectations of cadaver use and attitudes towards organ donation.
(15) This study reviews the retirement, precautionary, and bequest motives for saving, then evaluates how marriage dissolution may (a) decrease the family's savings rate, (b) cause shifts in the family's portfolio to assets with lower rates of return, and (c) destroy or deplete existing family assets.
(16) The principal revenues derive from private donations (bequests, card sales etc.
(17) According to Nelson's sister, Mabel, he made a dying bequest to the Thembu regent, David Dalindyebo, giving Nelson into his care.
(18) The results are consistent with modernization theory of gerontology and convergence theory of family sociology in that elderly persons with more "modern" characteristics are more likely to depart from prewar ideals of living with married children and preferring bequests to eldest sons only.
(19) ", the scale of the Georgian bequest is prodigious, and not merely confined to some rather impressive buildings.
(20) The money left by Violet Baker led to reports of a family rift, with her sister-in-law claiming the bequest was made out of "spite".
Smithsonian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Englishman J. L. M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D. C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports.
(n.) The Smithsonian Institution.
Example Sentences:
(1) All was very accomplished; her award-winning photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and her articles and pictures were published in books, periodicals, and newspapers around the world.
(2) Avi Loeb, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, who heads the advisory board, said that to power the spacecraft, researchers have to work out how to link lasers into one massive array.
(3) Willie Soon is a Smithsonian staff researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaboration of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,” a Harvard spokesman, Jeff Neal, said.
(4) His trademark white shirt and red tie are on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.
(5) As is common among Harvard-Smithsonian scientists, Soon is not on a salary.
(6) A meeting on Marine Biomedical Research, sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and the Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, was attended by approximately 125 scientists, directors and representatives from many of the country's marine biological laboratories, and government agencies whose interests and responsibilites are in the marine biology and health areas.
(7) As did last month’s story about the sunken slave ship headed for the Smithsonian.
(8) Cosby and his wife, Camille, appeared on NPR to speak about their donation of more than 60 pieces of art to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, in Washington DC.
(9) Discussions have also been held about the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC opening a London outpost on the Olympic site The former BP executive Sir William Castell is chair of the Foundation for FutureLondon, which has been tasked with generating philanthropic support for the project.
(10) "I'm glued to the new panda cams and thrilled to hear the squeals, which appear healthy, of our newborn cub," said Dennis Kelly, director of the Smithsonian's national zoo.
(11) The Smithsonian’s curators have their work cut out for them.
(12) Over the last 14 years Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics , received a total of $1.25m from Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a foundation run by the ultra-conservative Koch brothers, the documents obtained by Greenpeace through freedom of information filings show.
(13) As Sarah Zielinski from Smithsonian magazine , Kristen Philipkoski on Gizmodo and Mel Robbins on cnn.com state ringingly, while freezing may kill some germs, it most certainly won't kill all, and the germs will return with a vengeance once you wear those jeans again and heat them up to body temperature.
(14) Other remains from collections in Berlin, at Washington's Smithsonian Museum, Oxford University and London's Natural History Museum have been repatriated directly to Australian Indigenous communities.
(15) We either believe in places like the Louvre in Paris, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canberra as cultural centres of education and scholarship, addressing an international audience, or we hold that their collections should be redistributed and their purpose reduced to showing only French, American, Canadian and Australian art and artefacts.
(16) The Butte County Native American Cultural Committee started to press for the return of the brain three years ago after it emerged that it might be held in the Smithsonian Institution.
(17) I measured the bodies of vertebrae L3 and L4 of 338 skeletons from the Terry collection in the Smithsonian Institution, including Blacks and Whites, males and females, aged from 20 to 90 years.
(18) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(19) Rumours have been rife in the physics community about an announcement due on Monday from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
(20) Dolores Piperno, who led the study at the archaeobiology laboratory at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, said the work showed Neanderthals were more sophisticated diners than many academics gave them credit for.