Word: affluently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sons, Ralph and Herbert. To his son Joseph Jr., whom he apparently considered less able than the others, he left one-tenth. Under studious Ralph and socialite Herbert the World slowly lost most of its prestige and all its profits. Under able young Joseph the Post-Dispatch continued affluent and influential. When the wrecked World was sold in 1931, the Post-Dispatch remained the last monument to the liberal, crusading principles of Pulitzer journalism...
...spread in reuis from $100 to $500 does not accurately measure the relative values received. Men who realize this seek the cheapest room available. Few men of ample means are altruistic enough to take expensive rooms for the sake of making possible low-priced accommodations for their less affluent colleagues. Nor are they moved by the realization that no undergraduate pays fully for the amount of equipment and instruction offered him, and that by taking an expensive room they are merely paying in proportion to their ability...
...innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when he thinks of the injustices he received at the hands of rich Hugo Barnstead. The telephone rings. The affluent Mr. Barnstead is in the hotel just across the street, stricken with toothache. When he appears for treatment there is considerable doubt whether the angry Biff, gas cap in hand, will ever let him out of the operating chair alive. There is a fadeback and the audience is presented with...
...Sound, from Mineola, L. I. to Stamford, Conn. Time: 2 hr. 3 min. At 64 Col. Harmon is dapper, bulky, heavy-jowled, horn-rimmed eye-glassed. He is currently much better known in Paris, where he has resided for 15 years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established Harmon-on-Hudson, the Manhattan suburb where outbound New York Central trains exchange electric for steam locomotives. He is a brother of the late William Elmer Harmon who established the famed Harmon Foundation for social uplift...
...your magazine of June 6 I notice an article relative to the State Symphony, in which you say, "No single city was affluent enough to support a full-fledged one alone...