Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind him strode the body of the Democrats and their allies, Republican irregulars trooping after General Borah (of Idaho). This army too had its stragglers, Democrats here and there greedy for tariff spoils to enrich their home states. So all came at last to battle. Skirmish. The first clash echoed only with the rattle of small arms, yet that first skirmish was a matter of high import in the strategy, for in it Field Marshal Simmons secured a vantage point that secured his main line...
...regularly, for book buying. In addition to this, the experience of recent years justifies the expectation that special gifts for immediate use will provide from $15,000 to $20,000, the average of the past few years, which can be used to take advantage of special opportunities to enrich the Library. In other words, the College Library can count on buying about $80,000 worth of books each year...
...great, constructive plans of Mr. Herbert Hoover, whom the prospering Americans have chosen as their President. . . . Right now the Liberal Party is ready with plans which will reduce the terrible numbers of the workless in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and when completed will enrich the nation and equip it to compete successfully with business rivals." Though slightly vague as to these plans, which seemed to hinge upon employing the jobless in road building and on glamorous public works, Mr. Lloyd George made the ringing assertion that "all this will be achieved without adding a penny...
...valuable and unique donations of Baron von Stael-Holstein to the Harvard collections as described in the news columns of this morning's CRIMSON, have an especial significance in that they enrich the shelves and panels of Widener and Fogg in a field which is comparatively untouched. Harvard is not alone in this; Oriental religion and literature is a book that a variety of influences have succeeded in keeping very nearly closed to the Occident. This gift is not the first sign that indicates Harvard, at least, is on the way to correcting the omission...
...revenues"-these would be harsh words from any man. From President Coolidge, who applied them last week to the Flood Control bill which had been passed by the Senate and was pending before the House, they sounded almost savage. President Coolidge added that the provisions of the bill would enrich great railroad and lumber companies besides impoverishing the national Treasury. The bill called nominally for $325,000,000, but every one realized that in practice the cost could run as high as $1,500,000,000, or $1,210,000,000 more than the Army engineers had asked...