Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Similarly, excavators at Venice, Fla., turned up a mammoth's skeleton, nearly intact. Near Alva, Okla., Dr. James W. Gidley of the Smithsonian Institution dug up another mammoth; also parts of a giant sloth. Near Sarasota, Fla., Dr. Gidley found a deep bed rich with bones for future investigation...
...dinner at the Machinery Club, Manhattan. At their head was Rex Beach, another gentleman who has turned his two-fisted, eminently practical attention to things so various as gold-digging in Alaska and writing popular fiction in the U. S. Mr. Beach lately acquired large tracts of rich black soil near winter Park, Fla. He studied at Rollins College from 1891 to 1896 and is president and guiding spirit of Rollins alumni...
...Masons, Knights of Columbus, B'nai B'rith, Ku Klux Klan, International Bible Students, etc.; the clerk and the businessman aspire to the same social security and economic advantages; the working man seeks his security in his unions, in preference to churches, which he considers "controlled" normally by the rich. The acknowledged membership situation is pragmatically so and striving to make churchgoing more religious than social may be the cathartic for U. S. churches, which are losing members at the rate of 500,000 a year (see below...
Travelers have observed that the Persian is apt to be tolerably pious, quite up to Occidental average in sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that...
...fact remains, as every physician and many a patient knows, that the doctor's fees are fitted to his patient's purse. Those Illinois doctors may charge the double fees to neurasthenics, cranks and flustery mothers with ill-natured babies whose night calls are unwarranted. The rich, too, may be charged double. But the needy and the veritably sick will be charged in proper measure, for medicine is still a profession in Illinois...