Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Are we ever going to hear the last of the hysterical ravings over Charles Lindbergh and be informed of one kindly deed, one generous donation, one appreciative gesture, any tribute of love and acknowledgments of his mother's part-the major part, of this overrated, childishly magnified onetime flight across the Atlantic? Perhaps you too will dare to say the Eagle has pig's feet. ALVA REMING...
...electrified 263 miles of it. He raised salaries that were accustomed to being reduced. He speeded up the freight service (passenger traffic has never been an important D. T. Item). He shared stock with employes and excused them, as far as possible, from working on Sundays. Generous, Mr. Ford was also astute. For the more efficient became the railroad, the more rapidly Ford coal moved north from Ironton and Ford autos moved south from Detroit. And, though the selling price of the road was not announced, there was no doubt of a fat Ford profit. After the Ford improvements...
Lifting his heavy body to legs widely bowed by much riding on Wyoming ranges, Senator Warren expressed his appreciation for this "unexpected and generous tribute." Said he: "I have to plead guilty to the accumulation of my years. . . . When I entered the Senate I stated correctly the date of my birth; I did not hide it as, perhaps, some have done; I have never changed it in the records and so I find that this is the next to the last day of the eighty-fifth year of life...
...Basement article, would stand torn with indecision, balancing her chance of waiting another week and getting a lower price. Forward-looking Brother Edward also secured for Filene's site a strategic corner where Boston's rapid transit trunk lines (Washington Street subway and Dorchester-Cambridge subway) meet. Generous, impulsive, Brother Edward Albert Filene stored up much Filene goodwill through his habit of giving away merchandise, particularly to children...
...generous gifts from alumni who have made possible Soldiers Field, the Baseball Cage, Newell Boat House, Hemenway Gymnasium, the facilities at Red Top, and more recently the new indoor athletic building, the Harvard Athletic Association is most grateful...