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Word: generous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...many years ago in the early days of the Bay Colony. While hostilities have ceased, and we hope there will be no renewal of fighting, the cost to the government is still a heavy burden and required the assistance of the people. I urge upon all a prompt and generous response to this loan which probably will be the last...

Author: By Calvin Coolidge., | Title: "I URGE PROMPT RESPONSE TO LOAN"--GOV. COOLIDGE | 4/26/1919 | See Source »

...books issued was scarcely 100 less than the year before, a total of 497 being issued. Of this number 96 were law books, issued to men of the Law School. This is an entirely new feature in recent years and was made especially effective this year by the generous gift of several volumes by Secretary Ames of the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE SOLVED SERIOUS WAR PROBLEMS | 4/10/1919 | See Source »

...increase alertness, accuracy, and resourcefulness of thought, the art of working in co-operation with other men, and the learning how to obey and command. I hope that the undergraduates will give very careful consideration to the opportunity which is now extended to them by the generous facilities which the War Department offers at this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: START PRINCETON ARTILLERY | 3/29/1919 | See Source »

...better effort and broader ideas. We knew him as infinitely patient in the classroom and in the little study in Gray's Hall, where he cheerfully devoted himself to the troubles we laid before him. He served Harvard with rare fidelity and devotion; it is a lifetime of generous service that the University has lost by his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDERIC SCHENCK. | 3/1/1919 | See Source »

...therefore, count on you good offices to let every member of the Unit know how grateful his Majesty's Government feels for the generous offer made and carried out in December. 1916? Through two strenuous and memorable years the work of General Hospital 22, the largest hospital unit serving with the British Army, has held a record for skilful and untiring treatment of our wounded. The memory of so much service and self sacrifice can ever pass from us; it will be cherished in perpetuity by the relatives and friends of those whom the Harvard Unit has tended with such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BALFOUR LAUDS UNIT'S WORKS | 2/8/1919 | See Source »

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