Word: generously
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students to be taught. In looking ahead there are uncertainties enough without adding to their number by raising any doubts about the stability of our most firmly established universities. The new elective pamphlet is a comforting pledge that Harvard College, with many adaptations to present needs, will spread a generous table next year. Alumni Bulletin
...value except the winning of the war. The man who thinks that Americans may falter is either a traitor at heart or ignorant of the spirit that dominates the American people in this hour. Men of money are coming forward, most of them in a way that is most generous. Shipbuilders and owners of munition plants are showing their patriotism. The spirit of America is that there shall be no profiteering and no toleration of slackers either in military service, in munition plants or shipyards, or anywhere else...
...American people that the progress of the war depends on materials, not on money. We must not confuse loans and taxes, which are the means, with ships and shells and guns and airplanes, which are the ends for which money is raised and appropriated. The people have been generous in the financial support of the Government; since the declaration of war over ten billion dollars has been lent, or paid in the form of taxes, to the Government. Congress has appropriated unstintingly for every object calculated to assist in the prosecution of the war; nearly twenty billion dollars has been...
...libraries for men in service at home and abroad. More than a million books will be required to supply camps, barracks, transports and hospitals with plenty of readable books. Fiction, biography, history, travel, poetry, and almost any form of literature will be welcome. Contributions will be supplemented by generous purchases, especially in scientific and technical lines...
...blindness of a superficial patriotism. Only by earnestly watching for a change in the feeling of their people can we come to an understanding. How else is peace ever to be attained? Though we may find reason to doubt the integrity of their government, we may be generous enough to meet them half...