Word: generous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good standing scholastically. Beyond this there is nothing. Methods of administration; the nature and amount of work required in return; the choosing of recipients--all these are solely in the hands of the University. Even to Harvard--traditionally terrified by anything smacking of government interference--such terms must appear generous and straightforward. Ninety-eight per cent of all the nation's schools eligible to receive aid, including Yale and even Radcliffe, have gladly accepted, and as yet there have been no signs of their being compromised by the gift...
...Whatever clash of personalities that may have occurred ... is beside' the mark. ... In all my dealings and association with Roy W. Howard [president and editor of the World-Telegram] I have found him kindly, generous and eminently fair...
...thin, bright-eyed, cultured gentleman of 63, Rollin Kirby classifies his liberalism as "glandular," by which he means he cannot cure it. He thinks Joseph Pulitzer was also a glandular liberal. Believing that most men are kindly, generous and fair, Cartoonist Kirby has made his reputation by mercilessly caricaturing meanness, greed and hypocrisy wherever he has found them. Because he sees these qualities most often in reactionary politicians and businessmen, he has lately been more & more at odds with the front-office policies of the increasingly conservative World-Telegram...
...your hands, not ours, is the peace which Spain needs to recover and to end the bloody war which is weakening it and placing it at the service of invaders. Choose! If you offer us peace you will find generous Spanish hearts. If you continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience...
...choose Poland as a battlefield (see map, p. 17). For Poland a Russo-German war would be an unmitigated tragedy, but almost as ominous would be a real Russo-German friendship. Not easily forgotten by Poles is the fact that a friendly Prussia, Russia and Austria helped themselves to generous slices of Poland in 1772 and 1793, swallowed the country completely in 1795-96. Although Napoleon briefly resuscitated the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, the country did not regain real independence until after the World War when, by grants from Versailles, plebiscites and seizures on its own initiative...