Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that we must wait until some generous person kindly donates us the wherewithal, before we say anything about the subject, we feel that is ridiculous. We can never interest such a person, if he exists, in our improvement, unless we convince him that there is room for such improvement. And that is not accomplished by keeping silent. The Princeonian...
While the Committee was in process of reorganization, the problem of ways and means was fortunately solved by a generous grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of the sum of $150,000, payable in instalments not exceeding $30,000 per annum over a period of five years. The terms of the grant provide for just such research as the Department of Economics visualized when it brought its needs to the attention of the President of the University in 1914. For the first time in its history, the Department can turn to economic research without the feeling that it is expected...
...organization ever established in any university for the purpose of making permanent provision for economic research. Form its efforts have come, first, the Harvard Economic Society, and now the enlarged Committee on Economic Research which, having put its hand to the plow, will never turn back. Realizing that the generous grant of the Rockefeller Foundation provides only the necessary start, it believes that it has started an enterprise that will not only justify itself by results but will in ever-increasing degree command the support of friends and benefactors of Harvard University
Operators. With Controller Wilson's aid and generous support of the entire Government commercial flying has bounded throughout Canada. Four years ago there were only 14 private firms in the country's entire 3,684,723 square miles. Now there are 89 companies. Last year they carried 100,000 passengers; with only 24 crashes-29 dead, 20 hurt...
...hour. Some inconsistency has been pointed out in the paying of cleaning women at the Fogg art museum 37 cents an hour--what the minimum wage commission asked for the scrubwomen in the library. But the extra two cents for the art museum, cleaners are contributed by a generous alumnus whose name should not be withheld from the public...