Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates who see me for the first time have read your newspapers and heard on the air that I am, at the very least, an ogre - a consorter with communists, a destroyer of the rich, a breaker of our ancient traditions. You think of me perhaps as the inventor of the economic royalist, of the wicked utilities, of the money changers of the temple. You have heard for six years that I was about to plunge the nation into war; that you and your little brothers would be sent to the bloody fields of battle in Europe; that...
...like South America's. Like the South American States, the Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured products. Politically it is no less important. Germany would like to control it because it is the stile across the Fiihrer's push to the East...
...William Schmidt staked 24 gold, silver and copper claims in a remote part of California's Black Mountain. The ore veins looked rich, but miles of costly road would have been needed to get the ore around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper...
Hollywood's champion long-distance emotional gamut-runner, Luise Rainer has a real field day in Dramatic School. Her rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara...
...George Parmly Day, the treasurer of Yale, expects to pay part of the university's expenses from unexpected legacies. He was therefore both surprised and not surprised when he picked up his paper one morning last week and learned that a rich old gentleman who had never shown any interest in the university's management and who had not been in New Haven in six years had left Yale some...