Word: happier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor of New York can in any way make your lives healthier and sunnier and happier and promote your business and the sending of your sons to college, I'm at your service...
...papers or listens to the radio needs to be told that college football is no longer a miraculous money-maker. Harvard's team did not play before a single capacity crowd in the stadium during the season just ended. Yale's experience in the bowl was only a little happier. Dartmouth's income from gate receipts this fall was so meagre that the athletic council has been forced to abolish formal freshman teams in all sports except football. The experience of these three New England colleges is probably typical of gridiron conditions throughout the country. Except where the competing teams...
...with General Electric was happier over Dr. Langmuir's new honor than Dr. William David Coolidge. Drs. Coolidge and Langmuir are good old friends and General Electric collaborators. They have worked together in the same laboratory the past 23 years. Dr. Langmuir now holds the top place in U. S. chemical learning. (Only other U. S. savant to earn a Nobel Prize for Chemistry was Harvard's late Professor Theodore William Richards, 1914.) On the other hand Dr. Coolidge last fortnight attained what may well be considered the top job of U. S. industrial scientific research,* when President...
...story of the acquisition of great wealth, through a lottery ticket by the family of a poor Parisian shop-keeper. After many trials and tribulations, the family decides that it was happier when it was poor, and consequently returns to its former scale of living...
Things are going badly for Linda's scolding mother at Shawn's farm. None of the children has done well at school or in marriage. Linda dreams of being a nun. But David comes home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from...