Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom...
...smuggling of diamonds. How unsuccessful this organization has been may be understood from the complaints of reputable jewelers. Pointing out that they must pay 20% duty on cut diamonds and 10% duty on uncut ones, they show that disreputable jewelers, who buy from smugglers, can undersell them with ill-gotten gems. It is alleged that $40,000,000 changes hands yearly in diamond smuggling commerce; and the reputable jewelers have lately suggested the solution, highly insulting to the customs officials, that since the duties cannot be enforced, a return be made to the 1909 tariff rates...
...Museum to cooperate in investigations of early Western and Eastern art," stated Professor Langdon Warner '03, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Warner has made numerous trips of exploration and excavation in central China and Thibet in search of remains of Maya civilization and has just gotten back from a visit in Japan...
...quiet little conversation, apparently the talk of two close friends. They had come out of the White House, gotten into step with each other and walked down the lawn, where Mr. President had halted, turned and with a sweep of his arm indicated what a really fine place to live the White House...
Clemenceau-"had had a meeting with Lloyd George and the President all afternoon. I asked him how they had gotten on ... 'Splendidly, we disagreed about everything...