Word: generously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...
That should be sufficient evidence. Not that Northfield does not wish to be generous, but in the face of such evidence I am confident that Dayton will accept the correction...
...churchgoer who put 10? into the collection plate each and every Sunday of last year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...radio rivals to the newborn company have already appeared. Earliest of all in the field was Universal Wireless Communications Co, of Buffalo, which obtained late last year (TIME, Jan. 7) from the Federal Radio Commission a generous helping of wave lengths. This is still a dark horse; no steps have been taken to establish its proposed radio network between no U.S. cities. Postal Telegraph itself is the other rival: it has also applied to the Commission for domestic wave lengths. If radiotelephonic hookups, now a possibility, become a reality, the remaining great communications company, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will...