Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice, producing alumni is a tricky and unrewarding business, for there is no practical method of evaluating a young alumnus, nor of telling whether his quality is produced in college or in some other manner. As a result, you must wait until the public notices that your alumni become rich and famous--usually a half century after you have raised the quality of education. Only a college which views its mission as eternal can depend upon such a large delayed reaction...
...anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected"; 4) the bill would force such minority religious groups as Seventh-day Adventists (400 in Utah) "to work on their own Sabbath day" (Saturday) or else be limited to a five-day business week...
...large infusions of democracy and U.S. aid were the easy, automatic antidotes to backwardness and poverty that they are often assumed to be, mineral-rich Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000) should be a paradise. The bloody uprising of 1952 led Bolivia into the world's most comprehensive social security, illiterate Indians got the vote and land, the coup-prone army got abolished, and the mines that enriched tin barons of old got taken over by the government. The U.S. chipped in $129 million in aid during the next six years-more Yankee aid dollars per Bolivian than...
...short of money in his senior year, 1898. If the school had not paid his tuition with a $200 scholarship, Krumb wrote later, "I would not have been a mining engineer." As things turned out, Columbia had good reason to congratulate itself on its openhandedness. Henry Krumb grew rich as an internationally famed mining consultant, and in particular as an authority on low-grade copper ore. He sought to repay his debt in many ways, served as a trustee from 1941-47, and gave some $550,000 over the years to the university...
...Majority of One (by Leonard Spigelgass). Problem: Can a plump Jewish widow (Gertrude Berg) from Brooklyn find enduring happiness with a rich Buddhist-Shintoist Japanese textile tycoon (Sir Cedric Hardwicke...