Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time, the task or removing all six miles of board walks from paths in the Yard, and in other University property has been completed. Announcement has been made that a four-year program of macadamizing the present walks will start this summer. If appropriations are generous enough, authorities hope to eliminate all wooden walks...
...result of the generous gifts of the General Education Board of Boston and of donations by friends of the University, construction work on Harvard's huge new biological laboratory has been progressing steadily since ground was first broken on October 18 of last year. All of the concrete-work has been completed and the masonry has been built up to the fourth floor, leaving only the final story to be added before the outer shell is finished and interior construction may begin...
...Kings, Two Queens. Adolf Hitler has no wife and only what money he can collect (German Magnaten have been generous). But Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley, daughter of the late, great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, brings to her husband many of the golden millions left by her Jewish grandfather, Levi Zeigler Leiter of Chicago...
...annual contributions have ranged from $750 the first year to $7,549 in 1928-29, the peak year. In all, the Library has received from the Friends the sum of $24,777.50. This does not include the unprecedentedly generous gifts toward the purchase of the library of William Augustus White '63. For this purpose, one hundred persons subscribed the sum of $191,965, which enabled the Library to acquire the major portion of the books needed from Mr. White's collection of Elizabethan literature. Most of these donors were already members of the Friends and have continued their friendship...
...this bequest it pleased me to think that here was really an example of a wealthy and influential Southerner who was willing to forget the unfortunate Civil War and make the people of the South realize that the damyank folks of the North were really as kind, as generous, as truly human as the "old South" folks themselves were. In my mind I was already attaching the label of true liberalism and tolerance to the memory of this would-be benefactor...