Word: dies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Idea: a limited company (corporation) is a "fictitious person" who can never die. Therefore, on turning one's estate into a limited company, it passes beyond the reach of the death duties (inheritance...
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Lucia will open the Brooklyn season the same night, with Marion Talley the witless Lucy. Die Meistersinger will come next in Manhattan, then The Jewels of the Madonna, Martha, Faust for Saturday night and, in the afternoon, Mozart's The Magic Flute, first revival of the season...
That, according to famed Electro-Mechanist Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: "No rich man in the United States should die without leaving something to Johns Hopkins, the pioneer university of the United States...
...other sorts of) graduate study, I have never yet failed to find in any graduate student a similar spark of rebellion against some of this "arid scholarship". Even the "sorriest" of the lot had rather that the desert were not quite so broad, nor so dry.--Many such students die of thirst, and many turn back. But there are always some who see "the sense of going further," and who have the mental courage to go, believing that the knowledge and discipline gained are worth the while...