Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save his partner, but Gould took cunning advantage of the generous gesture, ruined debonair Fisk, and saved himself...
...expected from research of this kind unless it is carried on for years", Dr. Cobb stated. "Therefore the promotion of a permanent commission is a most important advance. Funds must be raised to carry on the investigations. At present about $10,000 a year is needed, but if generous support is given the scope of the work can be enlarged greatly...
...division with the Iraq Museum the Harvard Museums have had generous treatment. The share of the finds assigned to them, packed in 40 cases, has recently reached Cambridge...
...College papers, if he occasionally at tends recitations, and if he professes a healthy antipathy to frigid religious exercises at frigider hours of the most frigid of winter mornings, he has done enough. In other universities he very probably has; but in Harvard the case is other wise. Strong, generous learned, and liberal as Alma Mater unquestionably is her greatest glory lies in the faultless folds of her classic garments; and the chief care of the Freshman should be to preserve the spotless reputation for spotless raiment that has so long distinguished her from somewhat dishevelled sisters...
...Little Otto" held, last week, his first "Royal Levee" at the old palace in Lequeitio, Spain, where he has been reared by his mother, ex-Empress and Queen Zita (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). Well known is the fact that sympathetic, generous King Alfonso XIII of Spain contributes to the support of young "King Otto...