Word: pocketfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EDUCATION:--At Mr. Wackford Squeer's Academy, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification and every other branch of classical literature. Terms twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations and diet unparalleled...
...umpires a continuance of play for another inning was impossible. Not so said the crowds in the bleachers, whose emotions were already keyed to a high pitch by reason of the closeness of the score. The game was called, they reasoned, in order to permit the baseball "magnates" to pocket the proceeds of the game, whose total considerably exceeded $100,000. The crowd had to find something tangible upon which to pour the vials of its wrath, and it readily found a visible symbol in the person of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball. Upon his head an angry...
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...
...last he has come into full control of the capital city and has driven Wu Pei-Fa southward. Accordingly the question of his next step arises. Will he exploit China for the advantage of his own pocket, already bulging with a two million dollar income, or will he seek only the unification and development of his country, as he promises, so that it may become the united nation which alone is capable, in his opinion, of settling the problems of the Far East...
...telephony and reading continue. At the same time that individual wireless receivers are spring up on all ears to catch the music and the speeches in the air, Rear Admiral Fiske has invented a Reading Machine which enables a man to carry "the Government of England" in his vest pocket. Strips of paper bearing microscopic characters are passed by the operator of the machine under a magnifying glass powerful enough to permit comfortable reading. So vast is the saving of paper effected by this process that 10,000 copies of an ordinary novel could be printed, it is claimed...