Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glimp expressed the belief that such an effect would be disastrous, because he feels "very strongly that college scholarships are the most sensibly generous device that any American institution can make...
...years after Aramco, the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co., introduced into the Middle East the magic fifty-fifty formula of splitting production profits with the governments concerned, the numbers game no longer has its old magic. The formula was often broken while still technically honored-through side bonuses, generous rentals, air-conditioned Cadillacs or airplanes presented to sheiks. But on one matter the major oil companies of the world, which may compete at filling-station pumps but frequently join in partnership abroad, were adamant. They would split with Arab governments only at the production stage, would not let governments...
...opoldville: "Be not upset about your future. Have care for it, but not fear: Belgium is conscious of the needs of your nascent political state. Cast a backward glance at all that has been accomplished during the last 50 years. Why should the future be less generous to you than the past?" The only unanswered question: Would the future be as generous to Belgium...
...discussing his colleagues and other interpreters of contemporary society, Sorokin is somewhat less generous. He has little patience for contemporary salesmen of comfortable panaceas, referring to them disparagingly as "Pollyannas of easy optimism." For his salvation from the imminent deluge, Sorokin urges, modern man must look neither to religious conversion ("mainly a cheap self-gratification for psycho-neurotics"), nor to psychoanalysis ("please regard it as the last step before suicide"), nor to changes in political leadership ("but who is going to guard the Guardians?"). The main channels are blocked. To what can man turn...
...Treasury last week was "gratified" at the public rush to buy the $3.5 billion worth of short-term securities (TIME, Oct. 6) it floated to raise cash. Largely because of their generous yields, the issues were oversubscribed by more than 100%, and the Treasury was forced to allot securities to buyers...