Word: nickeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such evidence is, of course, not all-conclusive, but it does indicate a turn in the tide. The "self-made man" of a generation ago, inevitably turning up in New York with a nickel in his pocket and emerging a "captain of industry," has passed off the stage along with the railroad empires of Harriman and Hill. That era was one of pioneer expansion, rapid transition, and adventurous growth; stimulating to speculation and the building up of great "get-rich-quick" fortunes by shrewd gamblers who rightly played their "hunches". In such a period the college...
Most astonishing of all, Professor Baxter's work at the University long since proved that the iron and nickel which fall from the sky in meteorites coming from the spaces for beyond the earth's orbit have exactly the same atomic weights as iron and nickel from the earth a fact cited as indicating in one respect, at least, the unity of the universe...