Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston blue blood. Many a Boston socialite assumed that the aristocratic succession would continue. But the Harvard Corporation was conscious of the "unavailability" of some other candidates and of Dr. Conant's fitting neatly in the Eliot-Lowell intellectual tradition. No appanage of Boston alone. Harvard is the richest university in the U. S. ($117,204,250 endowment) and now has about all it needs in fine buildings and new houses. Harvard under Dr. Conant may keep its mind on lofty things, moving in the direction spry old Dr. Lowell indicated when, as one of his last presidential acts...
...read. Thirty-one days in Winter (Dec. 7-Jan. 6) Wiseman never sees the sun, but the winter Marshall spent there was unusually mild: the thermometer's lowest was 50° below. Wiseman is a gold-mining town that has long passed its boom dividends. In 1916 its richest claims were exhausted, high Wartime wages "Outside'' drew many of its most energetic citizens, Prohibition went into effect. In 1919 the last prostitute left town. Today, says Marshall, Wiseman is one-quarter its boom size, but it is neither depressed nor dreary. Most of its inhabitants came...
...rich baritone spoke at length about the drugs which the body creates within itself. The hormones are among such drugs. Histamine and acetycholine are two subtle auto-pharmacals with which he dealt particularly. Histamine seems to be a generalized component of body tissues. Lung cells are richest with it, epidermal cells next richest. At every injury or irritation the insulted cells exude their histamine. The histamine dilates the blood vessels in the neighborhood and at once initiates healing. To illustrate, Sir Henry scratched his hand with a fingernail, exhibited the red weal which quickly rose...
...Louisiana petitions kept arriving this week in the Senate, it became clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness...
...Nebraska's richest woman, Sarah Selleck Joslyn, opened her $3,000,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial on an Omaha Hill. It is an art museum in memory of her late husband George who made his fortune from a remedy for venereal disease ("Big G") and from the Western Newspaper Union (boilerplate insides for small newspapers). For her Memorial Room she wanted an oil portrait of her spouse. After several painters had refused to do a reconstruction painting from photographs, Chicago Painter Paul Trebilcock did the job. In January the portrait was hung in the Joslyn Memorial but Mrs. Joslyn...