Word: richest
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Giant's handling of the individualist in society is equally revealing. Jett Rink, the lonely and withdrawn poor white who strikes oil to become the richest man in Texas, represents, if anything, the Outsider. He may also represent Class Conflict, or Sudden Wealth. The confusion is significant--Hollywood does not know what to do with Jett, the non-joiner, does not know to what to ascribe his "peculiarity." This uncertainty probably stems from the fact that America offers few existing outsider "types" to work from...
Pusey believes that if Harvard can publicize its own "program," in the face of public opinion which believes that Harvard is the "richest" college, it will point up the obvious needs of the rest of the nation's schools...
...beggar seven loaves of fine bread. In gratitude, the holy man put his blessing on the prince's family for seven generations, one for each loaf. In the years that followed the prince's descendants, the Ni-zams of the princely state of Hyderabad, became the richest lords of all, in an India laden with rich potentates. Even the humbler men who declared India an independent republic in 1950 were loth to impose their democratic ways too swiftly on the 562 potentates who ruled their nation's princely states in unmatched autocratic panoply...
...retire the horse to stud. Nashua made a lordly farewell. He galloped the two-mile Gold Cup distance in 3.20! for a new American record and won going away. With the Gold Cup's $36,600 purse tucked away, Nashua retired with earnings of $1,288,565-the richest horse that ever lived...
...biggest producer (first: Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.) of the mineral that is used in the production of everything from fertilizers to detergents, steel and rubber. Last week Freeport tackled its biggest risk yet: President Langbourne M. Williams, 53, announced a deal to exploit one of the world's richest sulphur mines and the first large known offshore deposit...