Word: richest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Probably the richest coloring in the exhibition is to be seen in the two examples of Piot. One is a large figure picture representing two richly dressed Italian peasant women offering an orange to a pretty child, upon whom the attention is centred. The drawing is superb, and the flesh tints, though delicate and soft, do not possess the naturalness of a Bouguereau. Yet many prefer Piot to the latter...
...floods on the lower Mississippi are becoming more extended and disastrous. Louisiana's richest sugar district is overflowed and great losses and terrible suffering are inevitable. Many families are destitute, and rations have been issued to them...
...richest university in the world is that of Leyden, in Holland. Its real estate alone is worth over...
...following is from the pen of "Gath," in the Cincinnati Inquirer : "The recent bequest of Mr. Phoenix to Columbia College carries its available and prospective funds up to nearly $5,000,000. It is the richest college in the United States. It leads Harvard by over $1,000,000. Yet when the two institutions are compared with each other, Columbia confessedly drops to a subordinate rank. Its Law School and its School of Mines have a national reputation, but in other respects it is not superior to any of the other colleges of the first-class. Mr. Perry Belmont...
...Yaas," began Captain Peregrine again, with his inevitable introductory monosyllable, "I s'pose the Widder Hannam 'z havin' a pooty hard time on 't. An' there's Jake, her own husban's brother, one o' the richest men in taown. I vum 't is a shame...