Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lamont was interested in everything that concerned Harvard, but he concentrated his attention on a number of special areas. For many years he was deeply concerned with Harvard's libraries, and he was a generous and continuing contributor of books as well as money. He always insisted that the University must be a bastion of civil liberties, and he did not hedge on this conviction even at the height of the McCarthy...
...efforts to establish precedents can be frustrated, for targets of test cases will sometimes offer generous out-of-court settlements to avoid an adverse--and publicized--court ruling. They can then continue their practices, hoping only that their next victim does not go to CLAO...
...been trying to buy the paper, off and on, for years. In negotiations that were secret even by Newhouse's ultra security-conscious standards, he finally made a $500-a-share offer. The stockholders, who were dissatisfied with the dividends they were receiving, found the offer too generous to resist. To get 91% control of the Plain Dealer, Newhouse paid $50 million - the highest price ever recorded for a U.S. newspaper...
...Neuroses. The two most generous compliments she ever received came anonymously. In 1961, a nameless but extravagant fan contributed enough money to enable her to buy a 1673 Stradivarius now valued at $12,000. Two years ago, another anonymous admirer shelled out $90,000 for Jacqueline's other Strad-the famous "Davidov," once owned by the 19th century Russian cellist Carl Davidov. "The first has an earthy, peasant sound," Jacqueline says. "The Davidov is fine and clear. The extraordinary thing is that the wood still lives after 300 years...
Zeligs draws incomplete and consequently inaccurate portraits of both men. Chambers emerges as cold, sick, and vengeful. Hiss is dry, methodical, charming and generous. While we can understand what made Hiss an appealing person we can at no time comprehend what part of Chambers' character made him even remotely tolerable, to Hiss or anyone else...