Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then he went in a taxicab to St. Luke's Hospital for a week's rest. The hospital took him in free because in his better days he had helped it with generous gifts...
...president who never went to college," was bed ridden at home. He made his speech of welcome over a special radio hookup. The customary five medals of honor for distinguished journalistic service were presented by the school to: The Melbourne (Australia) Argus, for being ". . . fair and tolerant, liberal . . . accurate . . . generous and kindly . . . progressive without losing touch with the past . . . eminent in Australia and throughout the English-speaking world." The Des Moines Register and Tribune for ". . . artistic and readable typography . . . sound and socially constructive service . . . journalistic enterprise and vigor." The Churchman ". . . for 130 years of highly intelligent and uncompromising editorial freedom...
...peaceful ore, and forges its steel only into such benign shapes as locomotives, rails, bridge girders, and others purely industrial. Actually, Krupp is rearming Germany--the discoverable portion of whose annual armament bill now about $80,000,000. Germany, forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles to import armaments, receives generous supplies from Sweden (where Krupp controls the armament firm of Bofors) and Holland; forbidden to Export armaments, she ships to South America, the Far East, or to any European nation that will violate its own treaty by ordering from her. Yet for all the might of the Krupp works...
Elderly Yahya, the Imam of Yemen, is as crafty and penny pinching as strapping Ibn Saud is brave and generous. Where the latter won sheiks' loyalties by marrying their daughters, Yahya the Imam kidnapped his sheiks' children and held them as hostages. The latest dispute over the unmapped boundary between Yemen and Asir has been going on for two years, complicated by the fact that last year the Idrissi of Asir, repenting his surrender to Ibn Saud, fled over the border to join Yahya the Imam...
...relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave the keys ceremoniously to French officials. In his good Yankee accent, he declared: ''The Trophy of the Alps represents . . . the magnificent and generous ideal of an ancient civilization . . . and the Pax Romana, which gave three centuries of world peace and prosperity. May they be spread anew among...