Word: generously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison, everything else in the book seems minor, though continually interesting. Inside the Whale is a long, over generous celebration of Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller, in which Orwell sees Miller as a last-ditch individualist thumbing his nose at a mechanized world. England Your England is an impressionistic survey of Orwell's native land, in which he uses such unconventional criteria as the difference between the German's strutting goose step and the English parade step ("merely a formalised walk") to score some shrewd points about the strength of democracy...
...personal income taxes, with more generous exemptions for dependents and medical expenses. The tax bill of the average $3,000-a-year wage earner (married, no dependents) will drop from $175 to $150 (at current U.S. rates he would...
Near war's end the British were able to estimate the life expectancy of any U-boat 40 days. "Forty days was generous," says Author Schaeffer. But Admiral Dönitz, who lost two sons in the submarine service, kept sending the U-boats out. Schaeffer was assigned to commanders' training school just before the sub in which he had been on duty was sunk with all hand...
Alumni groups, principally former trackmen, have in the past assumed much of the University's share of expenses. Getchell stated, "The usual source of finance can not be counted on to come through again, because of generous contributions in recent years...
Although raised in a Protestant family, June became a Roman Catholic at 18, and she took her new faith seriously. She was active in charity work, made generous gifts to Catholic organizations. Her personal life was not too happy. Her Catholic marriage to Trumpeter Jimmy Zito in 1947 ended after a few months. Later, when she fell in love with Dr. John Duzik, a Beverly Hills dentist, the church refused an annulment of the first marriage. In 1949, Dr. Duzik died in St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, a Catholic hospital run by the Sisters of Charity...