Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college traditions adequately inculcated only when the student body is split up into subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York Times...
...elicit protests from prominent business organizations. Between 1921 and 1923, U.S. Federal taxes have been reduced about a billion dollars, and should continue to decrease in the future by the steady retirements of Liberty Bonds from European debt payments. State and local taxation, however, presents a very different case. Lavish borrowing by the issuance of tax-exempt bonds has been the order of the day ever since the armistice. In 1919, state and local governments in this country borrowed $691,000,000; by 1923, they were borrowing $1,063,000,000 and during the first eleven months of this year...
...spite of the rather lavish plan, tuition would be kept down to that of other preparatory schools. The whole would be a memorial to Mrs. Riddle's father-the late Alfred Atmore Pope of Farmington, Conn. Last week, it was announced that the buildings at Avon College were rising rapidly. It was announced also that Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, approved the whole idea as "a bold and far-looking experiment." The new school would "revive the colonial spirit...
American philanthropists, men and especially women, should learn to lavish the milk of their human kindness in supplying intellectual nourishment to those Indians on whom the real existence of India depends. Universal diffusion of learning and enlightenment among the people of the land will make India stand on her own feet...
...regard his profession as an avocation, and soon spends his time in resting up for another dinner. Christopher Morley recognized this when he said: "I am and always have been too well fed. Great literature, proceeds from an empty stomach." Michigan must be careful not to be too lavish, or it will destroy that which it wishes to foster...