Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Zaharoff, widow of H.R.H. Prince Francis de Bourbon, wife of Sir Basil Zaharoff, the richest man in Europe, died last night of heart disease at Monte Carlo." Thus ran a single cabled sentence which might have been expanded into columns...
...public enthusiasm that the opposition could but dwindle. King Fuad waited to compose his reply, but a Rockefeller architect, fresh from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance of the gift being banked to maintain them...
...time?a mad woman, or a French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side...
...little while ago North Carolina's richest man, James B. Duke, left an astonishing number of millions to a little college in North Carolina, which at once became Duke University. From being a little college with a small endowment, it now becomes one of the dozen or so richest universities in the United States. This university is in Mr. Simmons' state. Not only that, but it is the college from which Mr. Simmons was graduated in the year 1873. Under the existing tax law a lot of Mr. Duke's millions would go to the Federal Government in taxes. With...
...difference between Northern and Southern colleges is that you are heavily endowed up here. Bequests are made to colleges which have money more than to those which have none. However, Duke University in North Carolina is an exception to this rule. It bids fair to be one of the richest colleges in the country...