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Word: richest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.I.T. employees earn slightly less than Harvard's; but this is because Tech refuses to surpass the University, McCarthy said. Officials there claim Harvard is the richest university in the country, and it would be impossible to equal its wages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Workers Visit AFL at MIT; 'Cliffe Maids to Ask Pay Increase | 3/13/1951 | See Source »

...most expensive suites were the four famous "ebony rooms" which were furnished "In the richest of the darkest shades of antique oak clear to the ceiling...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Claverly, Erected With Eye to Fire Protection, Ushered In University's Plush Gold Coast Era | 3/10/1951 | See Source »

...said that since the University is the richest in the nation, its employees should be the highest paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUERA Workers at AFL Meeting Charge Mulvihill With Inefficiency | 3/10/1951 | See Source »

...just as confident about the Main Line as Investor Cobden had been in the Panic of 1857. "That the stock will go up again ... I have no doubt," wrote Cobden to a friend. "Nothing but an earthquake or some other convulsion of nature can impair the value ... of the richest soil of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Mid-America's Main Line | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

When M-G-M hired Dore Schary in July 1948 to run its production, Hollywood's biggest, richest studio was slumping badly. Almost anything he did would have been an improvement. Since then, while bucking a maze of intra-studio politics, he has done plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Millionaires at M-G-M | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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