Word: generously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Julia de Saegher, child of Courtrai in 1918, do you remember how blessed you made the Sundays of its prisoners within the white-washed walls of the gendarmerie, by your precious, timid visits and generous gifts of bread...
...Jananese, and have at her disposal an array of European shipbuilding facilities incomparably superior to ours. Equally important, the Germans would have become enormously self-confident. Military action then is a real possibility, and it would doubtless be materially-aided in parts of Latin America by the generous cooperation of fifth columnists...
Alternately greedy and generous, Paganini made and spent a deal of money, slept in many an illicit bed, achieved the patronage of Napoleon's sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo). Burned out in his early 50s, Paganini died in Nice at 58, a century ago last week. Few men have been so widely buried. For his sins, the Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved...
France is gathering all her energies to withstand the new blows. When are they coming? How? Where? A short time will tell you. Once more we may be stabbed in the back by another man who has refused to listen to all voices from afar, who has refused all generous offers. He is ready to plunge his own people into disaster. He may deliberately increase the world's burden of horrors. But he fails to understand the moral temperature of France and England. During the last three weeks they have bent, but are not broken. To be sure of this...
When Floyd Stahl started this, his second year as baseball coach at Harvard, he had everything to lose and nothing to gain. In his first year at the Crimson helm he had inherited a generous sprinkling of veteran ball players and led them to a first-place tie in the E.I.L. June graduation tore that pennant-winning nine apart at the seams, and the outlook this spring was anything but promising...