Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumanians learned of the parting with dour thoughts, Jugoslavs with joy. Reason: Queen Marie of Jugoslavia carried home to Belgrade in her special train, last week, documents transferring to her a huge cash legacy from her late father, King Ferdinand of Rumania (TIME, Aug. i). Generous, the bequest amounts to 80,000,000 lei ($4,800,000), a sour grape for Rumanians, a plump plum for Jugoslavs...
...gifts to the University generaly come with a "Handle Carefully" tag attached to them. Weld Hall may need new plumbing badly; but the generous contributions are all labelled for a new professorial chair, for a rare edition of Shakespeare, for another set of squash courts. These are all worthy projects, and the gifts are received thankfully; still, though man does not live by bread alone, he does need bread; and the plebeian matters of hedge-trimming and board walks require money...
...student units and at the present moment there is great fear of a loss of vital "organic unity". And finally comes the over-population of the college which is not only unfavourable to social values but which makes it impossible for the university to attempt freer and more generous educational experimentation. Briefly, this is the problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School was first broached, occupied a more and more prominent position in the consideration of all those connected with Yale. Now with...
...carry out professional engagements with generous measure of performance, and with fidelity toward those whom we undertake to serve...
Vacuum has always been generous to stockholders out of veneration for its creator, late Hiram B. Everest,* Rochester, N. Y. farmer, himself a poor man, and generous like all poor...