Word: generous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Houston's Rice University led the pack, boasting small classes and a high graduation rate along with relatively low tuition and generous financial...
...That was typical of how generous he was with his time, said Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Engell '73, a friend, colleague and former student of Bate...
...leaned forward and stretched toward them and put his hand upon each with a touch that was more like a kiss. It was an act of great physical grace, and love, and maybe it was done in part on behalf of a country that felt as he did--a generous gesture like the one 30 years before when a little boy made a salute...
...Eleanor Roosevelt of Cook's portrait--vulnerable, irritating, indefatigable, self-righteous, almost unthinkably generous--is not an entirely new version of the woman we know, but a more complete one. E.R. had an insufferable side; she also possessed an imaginative humanity that no First Lady--and no President--has matched since then...
...John is already carrying debts with British and American banks in excess of $11 million; he is known to ring up as much as $400,000 a week in credit-card bills and is said to stock his British homes with 240 flower arrangements a week. He is also generous to charitable causes and is God's gift to the spectacle and sunglass industry. John's rep says that the singer's finances are in fine harmony and that the loan is merely to help him buy back rights to six of his albums. Has he ever heard...