Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nourished by a generous soil and a benign climate, this open-toed, pastel empire last week beat with a great hum-thrumming vitality. On Wilshire Boulevard, rivet guns prattled into the fresh steel of new office buildings. The reiterated whop of the hammered nail rang out in a 6,000-house development on San Fernando farmland, in a 17,000-house subdivision in the tawny hills 40 miles to the southwest in Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous...
Died. Dr. Alan Gregg, 66, retired (1956) vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, director of its medical-sciences division (1930-51), and world leader in public health; after long illness; in Big Sur, Calif. Dr. Gregg joined the foundation in 1919, promoted generous grants to help finance the proving of sulfanilamide (first of the modern wonder drugs) and of penicillin, backed sex studies (including those of the late Alfred C. Kinsey), and pioneered the concept of mental illness as a disease needing specialized treatment...
...southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer was simultaneously punching copy on two teleprinters. When Atlanta complained that the copy was moving too slowly, Raleigh replied: HE ONLY HAS TWO HANDS. Came Atlanta's message: FIRE THE CRIPPLED BASTARD. (The U.P. has also a generous side to staffers, but compassion-as most editors and newspaper readers agree-makes dull anecdotes...
...these exceptions, the lower-level courses fulfill their function very well, for all but the exceptionally prepared freshmen who come to Harvard already generally educated in Western culture, ethical and political For a fairly large number from Eastern prep schools, these courses add little to the student's already generous background...
...HOUSING BILL will be more generous than Administration expected. Administration wanted to pare minimum down payments on FHA-backed mortgages from current 5% of first $9,000 appraised value to 4% of first $10,000, but Senate and House called for 3% of first $10,000. President Eisenhower asked $1.19 billion in new funds for federal housing agencies, but final figure will be considerably bigger...