Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unmarried and rich, one Joseph Ange Durighello presented to the Louvre his valuable collection of Phoenician vases. Married and poor, M. Durighello asked for the return of the vases. The Louvre authorities were sympathique but thought the Courts ought to decide on the legality of his request. The Court was of the opinion that Joseph had "only loaned them." They are to be returned...
...Mexia, Tex., with 18,470, and next was Stanford, Calif., with 10,580. The poorest were at Duluth, Spokane, Rockford. This seems to answer the argument against increasing artificially the amount of iodin in the city water since people frequently go from an iodin-poor district to an iodin-rich one and never notice any change in the water or any effects on themselves. The water supplies of Rochester, N. Y., and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., are now being treated with sodium iodin...
...clapper of his bell frozen to the sides by President Lowell, for obviously, this also is one of those jovial performances which, genuinely humorous the first time, rapidly becomes mere routine, without any better excuse for itself than an empty and eventually boresome precedent. There is, never theless, a rich and colorful store of Harvard history which the Society could most suitably disseminate among the surprisingly unenlightened undergraduates...
...Said Eduard after the conclave: "Our country is rich and prosperous and we, therefore, have everything to lose and nothing to gain by any change. The object of my policy, therefore, has been to consolidate our present position by working hard to create a network of treaties around Czecho-Slovakia to guarantee her against any setting aside of the existing peace treaties which lay down her independence and status...
...Marshall" who was connected with the case. A little later still it was revealed that the "mysterious Mr. Marshall" was none other than J. K. Mitchell, son-in-law of E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia partner of J. P. Morgan. At once the press took up the cry that a "rich man" was using his power to escape the law. Very little more ever transpired, however, than the fact that Mitchell, alias Marshall, had known the murdered woman...