Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis Miller, mowing-machine maker. The little band reassembled the next year and the next and many more. Their numbers grew. The original program of religious contemplation grew, reached out into other fields of human interest - Music, Education, Art, Politics. Each year the object was to make Chautauqua a richer, more color ful, more "improving" experience. As decades passed, "Chautauqua" became a word of many meanings. It meant, as well as the parent gathering and the name of a lake, town and county in New York, a great many similar gatherings in all parts of the country. It meant...
...believed further, that the school should provide an environment that will liberate and organize the pupils capacities for self-initiated, self directed, whole-hearted, purposeful activities activities that will have as their chief characteristics the reconstruction or the creative control of environment for ever richer living...
...Harvard Dramatic Club decided that "The Makropoulos Secret", the latest work of Karel Capek, was a play well worth doing, and, according to its esoteric lights, it might have presented this play to empty seats and still it would be worth the doing. The Club would be richer in experience, if not in purse, and a tradition, unique among College amateurs, would have been splendidly justified. But what is interesting to the man in the street--the tired student of business, the professions, or the arts, who weakly craves that the milk of human entertainment be not too curdled...
Every morning the first thing when he gets up--for the process of daily rising has settled on him like a habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book...
...Story.* To Selina Peake, girl, aged 19, her father gives the following advice: "The more kinds of people you see, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living...