Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Israel. The Jews are showing an energy which contrasts sharply with Arab apathy. Everywhere small communities are developing the land. Great arid tracts arc being turned into fertile farms, while the Arabs, comparatively poor, do little but protest. Land is sold over the Arab fellahs' (peasants) heads by their rich brethren. Willingly they part with dry belts and swamps only to see them fertilized by irrigation and drainage. All Arabdom sees its native land being snatched from it. As between the Arabs and the Jews, since cooperation seems hopeless, there is no hope of reconciliation. That is why last week...
...piece includes six other verses enumerating the articles of his worldly wealth which went to Father Abbey's wife. At the end there is a concluding line--"Thus Father Abbey left his spouse as rich as any church or college mouse, which is sufficient invitation to serve the college in his station...
School for Wives. Leonard Merrick wrote a novel called The House of Lynch. Stripped of Mr. Merrick's literary insulation, the wires of the plot seem a bit bare and shiny. Struggling artist, rich wife. He won't take her money; she goes home to papa. She is lonely; gives away her money, returns to struggling artist...
Happy in his personal relations, he stepped from one rich pulpit to another. Never was there sign of trouble, intellectual or financial. He preached sweet Christianity, packed the galleries...
...extract 100,000 lb. of bromine a month, the ocean waves and winds taking care of sewage and fume problems that would be troublesome on shore. If the Ethyl proves a treasure ship, a bromine fleet may soon follow her to sea. The experiment may also open a rich field in other ocean extracts?for instance, iodine...