Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marshalls make less splash than what one Marshall calls "big, strapping, celibate Rhodes scholars." But in many ways their lives are richer. "I've seen a great deal of England that most Rhodes scholars never see," says Paul Cable, now studying political science at the University of Manchester. "Up here it isn't all flowing academic gowns, green lawns and sherry parties." Says Dallas Holmes, now at the London School of Economics: "I came from Southern California with very right-wing opinions. I haven't turned Socialist, but I see that British doctors don't have...
...Post Publisher Philip Graham, began complaining. Povich thought that baseball was too important to be entrusted to generals. The Senators finished last in 1962, and Quesada, smarting from numerous Povich attacks, sold out his interest last month for a profit. "The team, like Quesada." exulted Povich, "is richer for his retirement...
...architecture than his reaction to two architectural wonders during a trip to India in 1954. The first wonder was the Taj Mahal, with its inlays of marble and its inexhaustible detail. From a distance it was "a vision," but as Yamasaki approached it, the vision seemed to get richer. Finally, "you go through this narrow deep gate, opening in total shadow. You emerge beyond the wall into the sharp contrast of a peaceful and silent setting, and there is the gleaming Taj Mahal in front of you. Then you walk along the fabled pools, then up a dark stairway...
...Museum of the City of New York, that orderly attic of Manhattan, is currently showing the work of 13 silversmiths of the colonial period. New York was full of wealthy merchants; as a contemporary historian pointed out in 1692: "This town is much richer than Boston. Its municipal currency consists of Spanish coin." But coin is cumbersome wealth; the merchants found it more practical to take the money to a reliable silversmith and have it melted down and fashioned into useful-and visible-objects...
...That was our only mistake," said the Giants later. Had they stopped Taylor, the result would have been the same. Whenever the Packer attack stalled, Guard Jerry Kramer booted a field goal-three in all-and Green Bay won, 16-7. Then the country boys headed back to Wisconsin, richer...