Word: generous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even with this in mind, several other considerations should first demand the attention of graduate contributions. The Harvard Fund, and especially the drive for an adequate Physics Building, launched recently by the generous gift of the Rockefeller Foundation, requires immediate contributions if only permanently to secure the original nucleus of the fund. These needs, unfortunately, can not be met by other than private contribution...
Even financial experts have their moments of carelessness, especially when their problem is an administrative one extending over long periods and concerned with large investments. The multifold philanthropy of that most generous Scotchman, Andrew Carnegie, is suffering now in one of its branches through the realization that the pension fund is running rapidly low. As a result the Foundation feels obliged to swing suddenly from the prodigal to the closed-purse. Harvard, with a large percentage of the men who benefit by the fund, suffers the hardest blow. The rather violent readjustment of amounts to be paid in the future...
...sepulchred within the Washington National Cathedral. Bishop James Edward Freeman made the announcement last week, together with a statement that Norman Prince's father, Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., who was mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle where his son will rest. Three famed dead now rest within the cathedral's gaunt unfinished walls: Woodrow Wilson, Admiral George Dewey, Melville Elijah Stone. A brave aviator, Norman Prince, after 122 aerial combats in which...
...Noble enterprises in this direction have been attempted." said the King. "My Government has already made clear what their viewpoint is. But disarmament has remained to this day merely a generous aspiration, contradicted by continuous arming on land...
President Coolidge paid a magnificent visit to President Machado in January, 1928, when he journeyed in state to Havana to open the Pan-American Conference. Generous and flattering were President Machado's attentions to President Coolidge. They became indeed the "great and good friends" of diplomatic parlance. Mr. Coolidge returned to Washington full of admiration and praise for Cuba and its president. Secretary of State Kellogg took his cue from the White House and anti-Machado agitators kept well under cover...