Word: generous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand it is the belief of University officials that to admit Radcliffe girls would raise the whole question of coeducation in the Graduate Schools, and for this reason they oppose their inclusions, it was declared. "The University has been exceedingly generous, and I believe the welfare of the whole cooperative is more important than any single issue," Spencer Thompson, 2G, said...
...Serbia had been expanded into a nation twice its original size as a result of the post-War treaties and plebiscites, which gave Serbia Montenegro, the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the semiautonomous region of Croatia and other generous slices of Hungary. The population was thus trebled (to 15,000,000) and all the south Slavs (Yugoslavia means "land of south Slavs") were united. Yugoslavia became, after Rumania, the second largest Balkan State (area: 96,000 square miles...
...cooperation was something less than generous. Each refugee was permitted to take along only one mark (40?) and a rucksack of clothes. Everything of value, including cameras and jewelry, was stripped from them by German frontier guards. At the Hook they were hustled aboard a cross-channel steamer, transported to Harwich, England, where they will be housed in an unused holiday camp until permanent homes are provided...
Mount Sanford, a huge volcanic mass 16,200 feet high, was the next object of the group, who had the generous backing of the National Geographic Society. Under comparatively favorable weather conditions, the party slowly wended its way through one of the severest storm centers in the entire world and reached the summit at 9:30 on the evening of July...
Appreciate greatly your generous effort as an aid in emergency and has humanitarian attitude --Albert Einstein...