Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with other salvagers, it took bullion-room gold to keep him dredging up wrecks. He told the king "for the purposes I have in mind, the sum of four or five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until the French Revolution drove him, discredited and poor, out of France into obscurity. On the shores of Lake Constance he still worked on, mesmerized...
...must let me call you so once more. Your more than kind, your generous letter touches me to the bottom of my heart. . . . For such little time as may be left for me, I shall treasure it as adding gold to the sunset...
...column in its successor The New Freeman. During the War he was secretary to Minister to Belgium Brand Whitlock. Though he holds M.A. and LL.D. (Hon.) degrees from St. Stephen's and a Ph.D. from Leipzig, Dr. Nock dislikes being called "Doctor." Believing U. S. institutions too generous with doctorates, he calls his contemporaries (from the lecture platform) Mister Butler and Mister Flexner. He has, however, a Ph.D. son, English teacher at the University of Leipzig, who permits himself to be called Dr. Samuel Nock. Son Francis teaches German at New York University...
...Rockne six, making its first public appearance, proved to be a trim little job with lines more like Plymouth's than Chevrolet or Ford. It can be recognized on the street by an R on the hubcap, a slightly slanted V-type radiator and the generous width of its glass panels. Its streamlined fenders will not be so distinguishable from its competitors this year as they would have been last. Prices: $585-$695 for the 66-h. p., 110-in. wheelbase model; $68s-$795 for the 72-h. p., 114-in. model...
This unique trophy, a white china mug of generous size, first appeared last spring in the Lowell House common room, with an accompanying message to the effect that the unknown donors wished thereby to commemorate the undefeated season of the Lowell House oarsmen, who had nosed out five different crews during the spring season. Given as a perpetual trophy of the Dunster-Lowell race, the gleaming bowl has remained in the possession of Lowell