Word: generous
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with a clearer vision, and know that the forebodings of those who have declared that war is ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly bcome magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...
...route to the Square, where it blooms, is nipped and withers in rapid succession. In the course of this brief life-cycle, a generally noisy world is treated to a lot of essentially peaceful noise for a change. Sundry streets, side-walks, students and Yard Cops receive a generous dosage of nothing worse than a wastebasket full of water; that the streets and sidewalks needed it, is fairly well established. Finally, about sixty Cambridge cops are treated to their favorite out-door sport--there isn't one who wouldn't trade a whole season of Policemen's Balls...
...been estimated with the co-operation of the State Department of Waterways that the distance from Larz Anderson bridge to Lake Waban on Wellesley's campus is approximately 32 miles. Although the river offers a generous sprinkling of obstacles such as dams and hydro-electric works, its actual fall is confined largely to the regions immediately adjacent to these developments...
...offering price of the West Penn common was no less than $27 a share, nearly 16 times 1939 earnings. Underwriters handling this high-priced risk money got a generous $2-a-share spread...
...letter acknowledging "with the thanks of the Republic of Finland your very generous offer of services to aid in out fight against the unprovoked assault of Communistic Russia," Per Zilliacus, military attache of the Finnish Legation, told Parker that only skillful technicians could be used...