Word: amass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...money and attempts to apply the Communist maxim "from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs." Today Russia is back on a money and piecework basis, but is not back on a Capitalist basis, the distinction being that no private employer is permitted to amass any considerable wealth...
...reason for them will certainly be apparent. In the first place, there are fewer examinations to be taken; they can be rated from a different point of view, and can show, from the treatment a boy gives a subject, his power to handle information rather than to amass it. There can be no doubt as to the superiority of this newer system over the old, and it is more than probable that if Exeter did not have so many students who come here for only one or two years, she would turn her attention away from the "Old Plan...
...Thomas Beer and published in the last issue of Scribners' has proved a sticker to several "supposedly" learned members of the faculty. It states with glee that the highest mark received by any of these men was 55 and that one of the students was able to amass a total only nine points lower. Most pleasing, however, to the editors of the paper is the fact that several of their taskmasters would fain avoid answering the questions put to them and attempted to pass the buck to a colleague...
...wealth. Nearly 30 years ago John Harvey invented a precooked breakfast food. The brothers manufactured it together. When its sales earned them big money, Dr. John Harvey insisted on spending the money on sociological activities-child welfare, public health, race improvement. Will Keith insisted on letting the business amass a fortune before giving the money away. His viewpoint was that business should be the benefactor of society. His brother's view was that business should be the servant of society. Their ultimate purpose was the same-giving away their fortunes...
This six-way dissipation of the Dorrance estate by no means slices it into inconsequential lots. Even one-eighth represents a sum few men amass. For filing of the will indicated that the total...