Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blasphemer with your hand." In mathematics, according to Father Bogoyavlenski, "Stalin always stood at the foot of the class. Asked to do a sum in addition, he said the answer was one thousand. 'Only one thousand?' the teacher inquired. 'Well then a million!'" retorted generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture but actually to treat Herr Stalin" vexed the Dictator. Pulling on his heavy peasant boots he clumped off to the State Opera, sat in a front box wearing...
...Young reorganized the company, began making pencils. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. is the one pencil concern whose stock can be bought by the public. It is also one of the largest makers of crucibles, lubricants, paint and other graphite products. It does not report earnings but stockholders have received generous dividends-$110 a share in 1914. $50 in 1916, $100 in 1917, $50 for the next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue...
...ordinary man who can dispense with the prestige and front-page value of high public office for more than a decade and still enjoy a generous popular demand for his presidential candidacy. The more fact of being executive of a large, and especially a politically doubtful, state in spite apart from other considerations, sufficient for a name in be listed among the White House eligibles. Such are the magic properties of being a governor, a senator or a speaker of the house that immediately one becomes simply an ex-so-and-so the gate of early oblivion is open...
...generous gift of $50,000 from Miss Catherine Bruce of New York City, a 24-inch Doublet was ordered by Professor Pickering from Alvan Clarke and Sons, and was sent to the southern station at Arequipa, Peru, elevation 8000 feet. Although this unprecedented size for a doublet was strongly criticized in those days, the glass has been effective and is responsible for 16,000 negatives in the Harvard collection, most of them 14 by 17 inches in size...
...Lloyd-Smith now devotes a large part of his surplus energy to big-game hunting. His Labrador retriever, "Ken-jockety Jim," won the Open and Best of Breed ribbons at last month's Westminster Kennel Club show. His wife, Marjorie, is the daughter of Arthur Henry Fleming, whose generous contributions helped to bring California Institute of Technology into being. In announcing his plan, Director Lloyd-Smith made public the sad fact that New York City's $38,250,000 relief fund, collected from State, city and private sources, was caring for only about one-half the estimated...