Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided,"he recounted modestly, days after the event, "that after all they may as well lose a little money," and he advanced with measured stride to the jam table...
Until the School raises more money, though, Keppel said no architects can be hired to make the exact drawings necessary for construction...
...such issue is whether the NDEA, by giving money to divinity students, mixes church and state...
Credit on the Barrel. Wangling money, equipment and labor on credit, Richardson began wildcatting, brought in West Texas' famed Keystone field. "It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth. "I did it by jumping up in the air six feet and holding myself up by my own bootstraps...
...Leeches. The story above all others that makes the book worthwhile is the money story. Before the big foundations were founded and before universities handed out lectureships to writers, most poetic achievement involved two persons, the poet and the patron. But Shelley and Byron both pulled a switch on the historic arrangement. In their circle of literary liberals, they had all the talent and they had all the cash. Percy Bysshe Shelley was heir to ?6,000 a year and thus a natural target for any advanced thinker down on his luck-including Editor-Author Leigh Hunt and Mary...