Word: riche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paternal support. Theoretically the Russian law is a sharp curb to carnality, since no man wants his entire income to be claimed by promiscuous children. Last week, however, a test case was curiously decided in Moscow when 10 unmarried mothers claimed support for their 32 children from a rich peasant, Ivan Bourov. In Bourov's case, the Court laid down a broad, general principal: "One third of a citizen's income is the maximum percentage which can be claimed for support of his children, however numerous...
Standing near the inventor, enjoying the delight and bewilderment of newsmongers, was Isaac W. Heyman, rich steel manufacturer, who had offered $250,000 for making copies of J.G. Larsson's device and then disposing of them. He explained that the inventor was in the U.S. to demonstrate his invention so that telephone companies might use it as standard equipment: he pointed out that in Sweden, whence Inventor Larsson had come and where he lives, Inventor Larsson's device has been demonstrated and found good by government engineers...
...just complaint of foreign diplomats that until this country enters the League or some similar international body, any hope of the replacement of war by arbitration will be crippled. The plan of the League has been to subdue rebellious nations by means of blockade. But this country is inaccessible, rich, and self supporting. Moreover, despite the passionate pacificism of many of its citizens who realize the butchering possibilities of another war, America calmly pursues an intensive program of military training, and will now build each year five cruisers of the type most effective for modern naval combat, to prepare herself...
...Crimson representatives were F. R. Chevalier '29, who won two and one half games, G. F. Gravell '28, who won one game, F. N. Rich '29, who also won two and one half games, and B. J. Reines '28 who won one and one half games...
...technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance, the rich American heroine is drawing close to the embrace of the almost equally plutocratic hero, polo-playing Mark Van Stratton. The highest quality of Author Oppenheim's work lies in the universality of its appeal?this one would be highly acceptable to a semi-cretin or a college professor...