Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good Calvinist who began to worry about the country's "decay of virtue, public and private" around the time he nearly blew himself up making powder for the Continental Army. To head off decay, the 26-year-old Phillips got his father and uncle to give cash for a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing, Arithmetic, and those Sciences wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
With the whopping cash prize went various other rewards: a recital in Carnegie Hall, a concert in London's Royal Festival Hall, a European tour, an S. Hurok-sponsored tour of the U.S., Canada and Latin America. For a time, Pianist Votapek did not know whether he could accept any of them: he was scheduled to be drafted, did not learn until week's end that he had been deferred for a year...
...Back usually makes his best run-it looked like Breasley's efforts at the luncheon table were beginning to tell. He stopped riding." Price challenged the Arc's first five finishers to a winner-take-all rematch, with each owner backing his entry with $25,000 in cash...
...four Lockheed Constellations, which the airline uses principally for military contract work. But the Trans International purchase was only the latest step in a pell-mell diversification program under which Studebaker has bought up nine companies at a total cost of more than $100 million in cash and stock...
Worse than Shakespeare. Chekhov liked to think of himself primarily as a doctor. But after five years' scribbling. Chekhov suddenly discovered that the literary world was taking seriously the stories he poured out purely for extra cash. "When I didn't know they read my tales." he explained to a friend, "I wrote serenely, just the way I eat pancakes. Now I'm afraid." Taking more pains, Chekhov won more acclaim. He became a friend of Tolstoy's, who praised everything except Chekhov's dramas. "You know, I cannot abide Shakespeare," the old man explained...