Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Craig, still young, is now the head of the physics department of Mercer University, Macon, Ga. He is rich, for he recently sold an invention he made while working on his doctor's thesis for $100,000. The invention is a device to take the place of battories and vacuum tubes on the ordinary radio receiving sets...
Probably it will revolutionize the entire radio supply manufacturing industry, for batteries and tubes add greatly to the expense of radio sets. And now the young professor is rich--because he enjoyed his work, because he used his brains and because he stumbled on the invention...
...this, if there is any, is that experimental theses are not necessarily impractical. And you seniors who have to write theses, bear in mind when you work on them that you may make a discovery or an invention while you are thus engaged that will make you rich for life...
...interview with a Crimson reporter before the lecture, Leys said that the Chinese had showed no hostility to him as an American, and that the present danger to foreigners and foreign legations is caused by the Chinese leaders, men of no position who are trying to get rich quick by taking over foreign concessions. He added that Chinamen of established positions are afraid that the Chinese will win, depriving them of their jobs. As for the possibility of the Chinese uniting in a war against foreigners, Leys said that it was doubtful since they were handicapped by the lack...
...feet of water, of varnished and translucent brown?the brown of old sherry." Though we are here reminded that Elder Brother Morley is prouder of his taste in wine than of his taste in literature?which he takes for granted?the Thames wanderings of Younger Brother Morley are as rich and heady as though the water were turned into brown old wine with the Wife of Bath's passing. An apparently genuine "treasure cipher," its decipherment and what ensued give to the tale an almost spirituous tang...