Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Department of all the authority taken away from it by the 80th Congress; repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a return to the more pro-labor pattern of the Wagner Act; government action to maintain "full employment" with a goal of 64 million employed by 1958; more generous unemployment compensation...
...linked to her reverence for her parents, whose pictures are always on her dressing-room table. Last year she spent 20 minutes getting a long-distance call through to her gardener so that she could wish him a merry Christmas. Preposterously openhanded with money and gifts, she is also generous with her stage experience in helping other players...
...November 8, 1928, the late Edward S. Harkness, Yale '97, gave Harvard $3,000,000 to start the House system on its way. On January 14, 1930, Yale announced its "college" system, and also announced the receipt of a "very generous" gift from Harkness...
Food for New Billions. Dr. Salter figures that if the world's present croplands were cultivated at the efficiency levels considered attainable in the U.S. by 1950 (this is conceivable), in 1960 they would produce nearly enough food to meet FAO's very generous requirements. Then Dr. Salter looked around the world for new soil to conquer, not by war but by intelligent change. Forty-eight percent of the land area, he said (ice, tundra, mountains or deserts), is hopeless for agriculture. In the remaining 52% there is plenty of room for expansion, for only...
...Surely such an action would memorialize these men with far greater relevance to their ideals and the present crisis than would an activities center. A small plaque could be set up in Memorial Church to tell what the money accomplished, and surely this would be a more living and generous reminder than any list of names. The need is greater, the inspiration is greater, and the effects must also be greater...