Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Encouraging Signs. The Chancellor called the attention of the Commons to the fact that trade was improving, that the nation was richer than a year ago, and that in six years the British floating debt had been cut in half, reduced...
...tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie on a Monument--which rather irritates me, custom or no custom...
...poor man were able to exchange epigrams over his dinner table or even over his luncheon (Gor forbid that it should ever go so far as to disturb and tax his early morning breakfast mind), then the world might be richer by one drawing room comedy. But the days of the green carnation have passed and the circle has not yet returned upon itself. So, we find a play which has one mission in the world, to make its auditors turn and say, "Remember that, dear; we'll use it at the Bottomley's tomorrow night." And there...
...years after completion of the 'grundschule' which gives a four year course. Entrance examinations are now given for admittance and thus the sole qualification for the Gymnasiums is intellectual ability rather than wealth as was formerly the case. Poor students are admitted as readily as richer pupils and they are aided by a reduction in tuition and help in the form of regular stipends. If one does not go to the Gymnasium after completing the 'grundschule', he continues the compulsory education until...
...Five years of poverty, five years of awful struggle, and now the earth was mine?rich at last, richer than I had ever dreamed of being?$1,000 a week net, and every week adding to it by leaps and bounds?$50,000 a year and all mine?next year $60,000, then $70,000 and $100,000?$1,000,000, maybe?great heavens, and it was real...