Word: riche
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Guards--Rich, of Dartmouth, and Thompson, of Cornell...
Every year speculators reap a rich harvest from the sale of Yale game tickets--and no doubt they feel justified in earning their livelihood by this means. But the professional speculator is not on the last of those entitled to receive tickets, and we must conclude that a few graduates or undergraduates have sought to make their connection with the University a source of dishonorable profit. The temptation is no doubt greater for some than for others, but need of the proceeds does not justify this sort of ticket speculation...
...Rich '09, right guard, has played on the team two years as fullback. He is 22 years old, 5 feet 11 1-4 inches tall, and weighs 189 pounds...
...that of Rousseau, of Benjamin Franklin, the idol of the French people. The misery of the lower classes, while undoubtedly great, has been grossly exaggerated by Carlyle and others; and far from being a cause was only a condition of the Revolution, which was in reality started by the rich people and thinkers of the nation, and then taken up by the peasants...
Louis then summons before him Loyse, the beautiful daughter of Simon Fourniez, a rich bourgeois whom he has befriended. Olivier-Le-Daim has seen her and fallen in love with her at sight. The king promises Gringoire that he will spare his life if he succeeds in winning Loyse within the hour. When left alone with her, however, the poet forces himself, by a supreme effort, to keep silence on the subject of the king's command. On the latter's return, Loyse for the first time realizes Gringoire's position, and declares that by the subtlety and sweetness...