Word: enrich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affecting public welfare, general scientific knowledge, and enlightenment. They are not provided for men to work out discoveries and inventions from which they privately derive profit and personal gain! Some discoveries must from their nature be patented, but they should not be handed over to individuals or institutions to enrich an individual or a corporation. Further, such taking out of patents discourages free interplay and cooperation between scientists and makes improvement and progress a difficult thing. No legal barrier should stand in the way of human welfare, scientific knowledge, or general enlightenment...
While this policy may temporarily enrich the garages they will presently discover that they are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, for the students are not likely to submit to a combination of robbery and coercion without doing a great deal of bellicose kicking. There is, in fact, but one way to remedy the situation, and that is for all men concerned to indulge in renewed and violent protests. These could easily be strengthened by a boycott of the Square garages; men might transfer their patronage to Central Square or elsewhere. Certainly it is by this time evident...
Those cheerful frauds who enrich themselves by the confection of such small primers of American citizenship as are on tap at the local immigrant school have divine certainty on two points. First, of course, is the great democratic hypothesis of equality which Mr. Lincoln phrased so enchantingly at Gettysburg. But next the halting, all credulous alien is told that in the dark days of our republic, when irate heaven scorned the frontiersman and his libations, a very wicked gargoyle named the spoils system flourished in the land. Ah, alien--when he departed, and the curtains parted, there was Pendleton, kicking...
...Freshman, and to connect him as permanently as possible with those he may meet or chance to know in the higher classes. Just as the introduction of inter-House eating practically re-made the social relationships of upperclassmen, a parallel change, as here suggested, would greatly widen and enrich the Freshman sphere of activity. Chiefly by bringing such influences to bear in the very first year, can the still evident class lines in the Houses be broken down...
...Turkish legions pell mell back across the plains of Hungary was the arrival of the galloping lancers of King John Sobieski of Poland. Whoever won it, it was a great victory. Western Europe was saved for Christianity. The Turks never returned, but they left behind them things to enrich the world: coffee to start the first café in Vienna, the first lilac bushes in the west...