Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Obviously the Association of Harvard Chemists is fully alive to the fact that it has a double responsibility and the present gift is a material witness of this consciousness. Money in any form always has a ready welcome, and it is difficult to imagine a better stipulated use than that of buying books. The Chemical library has found adequate and very handsome quarters in the Mallinckrodt Laboratory, which-bring with them the demand that proper books be forthcoming to fill the shelves. It is very fitting that one of the earliest steps taken to fill this need has been made...
Last week he was in Manhattan. He had hop-skipped there from Los Angeles, with a night's stop-over and sleep at Dallas. His purpose was to get eastern money to join his own in forming a new transcontinental airline?Southern Skylines...
...Billings brought not only a devotion to the 'breeding and racing of fine horses, but an amateur spirit extremely rare in the proverbial sport of kings. Mr. Billings raced many a trotter, controlled indeed, his own racetrack (at Memphis). But none of Mr. Billings' horses ever raced for money and at his racetrack there was no betting. For (said he) it was un fair for the wealthy sportsman, to whom money was no object, to race his horses against the average breeder who had his living to make in the racing business. Thus, though he spent millions on trotting horses...
...peasant-noble union. Too good a psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility of nobles and peasants, few would pay to attend. It is as a psychologist, as the creator...
...newspaper. Instead, he acquired the sole right to sell all the national advertising space for William Randolph Hearst's New York American. The agreement came thus: To Publisher Hearst, as is generally known, the American is more of a political pride than a profitable joy. Sometimes it makes money; more times it does not. Not long ago, with this fact in mind, Publisher Hearst cast his eye about, saw Pub lisher Block making money as a com petitor in Pittsburgh (TIME, Aug. 13); saw him conducting also a large, selfsupporting business in selling space for news papers not owned...