Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Very luckily the Dean's Office and President Conant have co-operated generously with the Council. Dean Hanford, particularly, has always been generous with his time in aiding the Council. Also, any records in the office are almost always thrown open to the Council when information is requested. Because of this close co-operation many have said that the Deans dominate the Council. Looking over the history of the past few years, I do not think that such an accusation in at all warranted; the misconception springs from the fact that when one is allowed to know all the facts...
With the Coronation safely behind and his own place in history carved Premier Baldwin can afford to make a generous gesture toward a man who did much for England. Yet with an almost vengeful relentlessness he continues to harry Edward, forbidding him to live here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught...
...Story of Patsy. When the Atlantic Monthly damned the kindergarten as "a joy saloon," spunky Miss Wiggin flashed: "I like the name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster who was asked "Who is it brings the flowers adorning earth anew?" promptly piped "Mrs. Shaw...
...measure of their place in his half-Irish heart. Even outside Emporia, where all the worst sinners live, he can always find some good word to say for the dead. Only once in 42 years has a man died in the U. S. about whom he could not be generous. That was Publisher Frank Munsey, whose obituary stated briefly that he had "contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer and the manners of an undertaker...
...although the president may be able to induce the more opulent and generous alumni to contribute to an endowment fund for athletics, it seems evident that gate receipts, for some time at least, will remain the backbone of the H.A.A.'s financial set-up. For collecting the several million dollars that would be needed to put the whole athletic program on a self-sustaining basis is not just a simple day's work, and may not be accomplished before years have gone...