Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depression. "We find fundamental national gains even amid depression. We have witnessed a remarkable development of the sense of cooperation. There has been a notable absence of public disorders and industrial conflict. . . . The country is richer in physical property than ever before. . . . There has been a distinct gain in public health. Business depressions are but transitory. The Nation has emerged from each of them with increased strength and virility...
...finest in any collection. The animal is usually found in the dense forests of West Africa. These specimens are of the Eastern race which is confined to the highland forest areas of Kenya Colony. They have more massive horns than the West African race and the hide has a richer and brighter rufus color. The most characteristic things about these animals are the white cross stripes on the hide and the smooth, open, spiral form of the horns...
There are richer men than was Dr. Dorrance; more valuable organizations than Campbell Soup Co. But few companies so big were ever completely owned by one man. Many an investment banker's mouth watered at the thought of selling such a fat goose to the public. None ever succeeded in talking business with Founder Dorrance (excepting Lehman Bros., which sold a few shares of preferred stock, later retired). In his will Dr. Dorrance admonished his executors not to sell Campbell Soup stock but if "after the greatest deliberation" a sale is ever found necessary, to sell...
...that Widener is richer by the recovery of some eighteen hundred stolen volumes, the benefits of the turn-stile system are more evident. All of the recently discovered thefts were committed before this was installed. Since that time the number of missing books has decreased considerably. It is evident that the Widener customs have been effective in their methods...
...already become evident." He thinks Roosevelt "undeniably the greatest Republican President since Lincoln." For Wilson he reserves higher praise: "Here once more was the authentic voice of the great American democracy; here once more was the prophet speaking of the American dream, of that hope of a better and richer life for all the masses of humble and ordinary folk who made the American nation. It was the voice once more of the democratic frontier, of Jefferson, of Jackson, of Lincoln...