Word: rich
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is in Japan a considerable body of opinion which sees in Siberia a most desirable field for expansion. The country is rich in natural resources, and the population is small, in many ways it is the best opportunity now open for the extension of Japanese possessions. Japanese statesmen have on occasion given expression to this ambition...
...Government workers of all sorts. The second class is of all other sorts of workers. The third is of people who do not work the leisure class. . . . The children are in a class by themselves: class A1. They get all the few delicacies--milk, eggs, fruit, game. 'Even the rich children have as much as the poor children.'" Did, this nation not have a Food Controller during...
...strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply for domestic use. It would involve stopping the operation of railroads, electric light and gas plants, street railway lines, and other public utilities...
...small part of what each student costs the institution, being kept at a merely nominal figure so that a liberal education may be within the means of poor, and even of self-supporting, students. As a result, sons of the moderately well-to-do, and even of the rich, receive what, in effect, is a gratuity. That is one of the many anomalies of democratic institutions. Mr. Barnes suggests that in making their canvass the "drive" teams confront every manifestly solvent graduate with a demand for unpaid arrears of tuition, and then proceed to the more abstract obligations of college...
...stories are pleasant reading and evidence technique and training. Mr. LaVarre's tale of the night with the Bovianders is rich in local color, and resounds with the beating of barbaric drums, is redolent of gin, and in its portrayal of a quaint marriage ceremony is excellently conceived. By far the best work in the entire number is Mr. Spaulding's "Fancy." This is evidently the work of a man with no mean literary talent. Next year under the stimulus of competition from the Harvard Magazine, combined with the more liberal policy which Mr. Garrison is expected to inaugurate...