Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senators Will Hear ... As the debate began. ex-Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson rolled out a bill based on the Democratic Party platform-a sliding scale of generous supports, ranging from 90% of parity down to 75%, depending on the size of U.S. harvests. But North Dakota's Republican Young and Georgia's Democrat Dick Russell were out to do better by the farmers. They proposed an amendment that would keep price supports on basic crops fixed at the flat 90% of parity which had been set up to increase production in time of war, and which...
Michigan saw the band, which made its longest trip up to that time, in 1938, when Harvard played at Ann Arbor. Help from the HAA and generous alumni sent the musicians, who up to 1937 had paid all their expenses out of their own pockets...
...delegates recessed, a buzz of dismay filled the halls. Most disquieting was the shadow that had fallen over the supposedly generous Occupation Statute. Was the new German government going to be only a puppet, as the Reds charged...
...Hair of 'is 'ead." The notebooks show that the old butler's best tipper was a certain Captain Davenport. Housemaid Edie learns why the Captain was sometimes so generous. Going into Mrs. Jack's bedroom as usual one morning, when old Mrs. Tennant is absent from the castle, Edie draws back the curtains and the sun streams in. "She saw a quick stir beside the curls under which Mrs. Jack's head lay asleep, she caught sight of someone else's hair as well . . . retreating beneath the silk sheets." Dumfounded, Edie scuttles...
...origins of Stanford are shrouded in myths which go back to the great railroad man and Senator Leland Stanford himself. The story goes that the Senator gathered a few of his millions together and with a generous heart and bulging bank roll, proceeded to Yale University. (Some stories say it was Harvard, others both Harvard and Yale.) That dignified institution turned down the "tainted" money, feeling that it could not build a university with money gouged from California formers by a railroad monopoly. "Very well, I'll found a university of my own," said the good Senator...