Word: generous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lansing, Michigan's capital, state senators and assemblymen, many of them fathers of large families, spoke harshly of him who spoke so boldly. It was undiplomatic to offend the legislators. They make yearly appropriations for the university. Many a pessimistic citizen envisaged the legislature, outraged, refusing its usual generous allowance to the state's education. And in 1927 when Dr. Little asked $4,925,000 for lands and buildings the legislature granted him only $3,950,000 which by Governor's veto was promptly cut down...
...first two minutes the conviction that because Harry Lauder showed a large number of gratis guests from Harvard how bad a Scotch comedian could be, that a burr was nothing more than another reason for seeing Doctor Means. Fyffe is a consummate actor, product of the English school of generous gesture. He is as far removed from American vaudeville standards as Ruth Draper or George Arliss. Last night he gave three portraits: an old man, a sailor, and a mildly intoxicated inciter of the proletariat. These are fat material, and Fyffe has brought to them a rollicking voice that...
...Boston Herald published these facts, precipitated discussion in the legislature. State Senator James G. Moran was aroused. To him, Governor Fuller's action was suspicious, only seemingly generous. "You should not be misled into thinking," he stated, "that these checks have passed out of the control of the former Governor." He asserted that in the event of Mr. Fuller's death his executors would be compelled to include the checks as assets of the estate and collect the money from the Commonwealth...
...Princetonian all of these considerations appear in the light of definite advantages. The only disadvantages which could be urged are the practical ones; and these Mr. Harkness has largely set aside by his generous promise of more funds when they are needed. The process of selection will be a difficult one, and will involve a certain number of mistakes. There is the danger on the one hand of uncongeniality; on the other of too great accord and insufficiently diversified interests. To be successful, the Houses must function as something considerably more than mere dormitories or common eating halls...
...wondered at that there are innumerable unwashed and untempered psychoanalysts who have discredited the subjects of psychological analysis in the eyes of the scientific world by their vague and extravagant statements. As if in blissful ignorance of the nature of scientific testimony phantasms have been promulgated with generous abundancy. Undoubtedly amidst the weeds there are to be found some flowers, but there is no telling one from the other and so criticism mows them down weed and flower alike. Certainly this state of affairs is more a function of the analyst than of the subject matter; for we have here...