Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshmen again were the most generous, contributing $1,360 to bring their two-day total to $3,890 or 60 per cent of the Yard goal. Lowell House contributed$400, but still lagged behind the other House with only 20 per cent of its qota filled...
...generous contribution of the Harvard community comes at a critical time," Rothstein declared. "The money collected last week will be largely responsible for keeping the SNCC operation going...
...state-owned oil and gas monopoly. A rapidly growing power in international business, Mattei has outraged the major oil companies by flooding their European markets with his own gasoline (much of it made from Russian crude) and by moving into the Middle East and Asia with drilling bids so generous that they have all but made a dead letter of the traditional fifty-fifty profits split between the oil companies and the nations in which they operate...
Such virtuosity is put to even more effective use in Cambridge Seasonal, which I would call his finest work. In this paean to an academic community, Freeman's generous treasure of words does not seem overlush or recondite. He wields the recherche with deftness and then undercuts it with a wonderful transition to the commonplace. Part III ends with Longfellow "Englishing his purgatorio ... while a spirit-lamp warms the coffee up." Part IV shatters this academic fantasy and brings us back to earth...
...black water buffaloes that are the Philippine beasts of burden, stole out at night to catch frogs in the rice fields for food, and did well enough in the village school to be named class valedictorian. He would have been too ashamed of his clothes to appear, if a generous neighbor had not supplied him with a white shirt and a pair of canvas shoes...