Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very excellent method for eliminating students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...
...Fair" though this may seem, the net result was to send Reichsbank shares down from 319 marks to 310 last week. But they had risen to 319 from a quotation of 280 a fortnight previous, buoyed up by rumors that the Schacht Solution would be not merely "fair" but "generous...
...play in which appears Katharine Cornell. Madeleine Smith was real, and the playwrights have sought to impart a like reality to their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons...
...delayed by confusion and heckling, the year's profits were finally revealed as $643,047 against $607,677 in 1928, and the gross admissions as $5,131,675 against approximately $5,000,000 for 1928. However, the balance sheet showed that a surplus achieved only by a generous estimate of "good-will...
...credit upon the rioters themselves or upon the institution which in the popular mind they represent. The Boston Traveler is to be congratulated on recognizing the fact that "this sort of Siwash stuff" is not in fact representative of Harvard; others, less discriminating are not likely to be so generous if the subway customs of the last two years become a tradition...