Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation to justify a lack of initiative on their part. Work in an undergraduate activity for pay might seem detrimental to their self-respect, as savoring too much of "professionalism." These considerations would tend to eliminate from competition for high positions most of those who did not need the money...
...public, and in some cases the Senatorial axe, has been the lot of the victor on whose laurels a golden tint predominated. Contributions clinked merrily into the coffers, rarely receiving the close attentions of other than minor attaches, until public sentiment has at last placed the receipt of money as well as its expenditure in the realm of the executive. No longer will the eye of leadership unswervingly be fixed upon the combat-it must often revert to the ammunition...
...American Electric Railway Association has made its meeting & exposition at Cleveland a yearly affair. One attraction is that the Cleveland Railway Co. has the privilege of raising (or lowering) fares to provide ample money for dividends on its capital stock and for experiments in street railway operations. Practically every other company in the country is bound by franchise always to charge fixed fares. Cleveland thus is the inspiration and hope of such companies...
...marry the girl's father but when everything had been arranged he died and Theresa was left alone, unhappy, and growing old. Franz, her son, had by this time become a pimp and jailbird; he came home to his mother only when he wished to take money away from her. Finally, she refused to let him have any more. Then Franz, whom she had wished dead, strangled her. Albert came to see her in the hospital where she lay dying. Theresa said to him: "He has only repaid what I did to him. They must not punish...
...Magnesia, squalid, dusty, smelly town in Asia Minor, about two hours railroad ride from Smyrna. In his will, opened last week, he gave a fifth of his $5,000,000 fortune, to found and maintain a hospital for Magnesia's poor of all creeds. He also willed much money to Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions...