Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans, who like to think of themselves as the kindest and most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
Baldwin could be generous: in 1919 he gave $600,000, one-fifth of his personal fortune, to the state, to convince other rich men "that love of country is better than love of money." He could be generous, at the right moment, to political enemies: when his Tory followers demanded anti-trade-union legislation in 1925, he came out against it, with a Baldwinian peroration: "Give us peace in our time, O Lord...
...several years our Association has sent Christmas seals to the students of Harvard and other colleges in Cambridge. The response in interest and money has been spontaneous and generous. Last year the per capita return from Harvard students was only 1 percent less than that of the institution with the highest rate. The heavy returns coming in daily this year from Harvard students and from students of other colleges in Cambridge demonstrate individual and personal interest in the cause for which the Christmas Seal stands...
Between 1881 and 1925, theatrical work at Harvard developed to the point where the University was considered to be the leading center for education in the drama. This did not occur because of any generous hand or kindly countenance within University Hall. It resulted from great undergraduate interest combined with a particularly distinguished group of men on the Faculty. The Administration sat quietly by, watching carefully all the while. It tacitly approved the productions offered by the French, German, English, and Classics Departments, as these had an aura of educational value. The debut, in 1881, of this phase of dramatics...
...mural or a movie. Rebecca West reports in depth-a depth whose winding recesses of character, situation and context she divines by the play of unusually acute instincts and intuitions guided by an eye for significant detail. And she floods the planes of her perception with the generous human warmth of a womanly nature and a culture-crowded brain that gives to the meanest fact a new perspective...