Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 250 trusting students in Chem B dig their last dime from their wallets and put it through a myriad of chemical tortures. The final product is 250 little silver balls, worth 3 cents apiece being all the silver there ever was in the dimes. Then all this rich metal is handed docilely ever to the authorities, who realize about $300 every century on the deal...
After the style of Jonathan Swift's famous suggestion that the children of Ireland be eaten by the rich in order to relieve the poverty of that country, "A Modest Proposal" was circulated throughout the College yesterday which substituted the "outhousers of Claverly, Dudley, etc." for the Irish infants...
Uprooting all vegetation, burying all life in its wake, the avalanche ploughed through rich plantations, removed whole hamlets from the face of the island. Few in the wall's path had time to escape. Injured victims of previous smaller slides were caught, their legs and arms torn from their bodies by the onrush of debris. A corps of carpenters constructing wooden coffins saw a mass of mud moving down a valley, were themselves buried alive. Mothers tried to herd their young to safety as the slithering ground under their feet swept whole families to death. One seven-acre area...
...reason Odets has gained and held a public that, by & large, does not share his Leftish ideas is obviously not the ideas themselves but his rich, compassionate, angry feeling for people, his tremendous dramatic punch, his dialogue, bracing as ozone. In every Odets play, regardless of its theme or its worth, at least once or twice during the evening every spectator feels that a fire hose has been turned on his body, that a fist has connected with his chin...
...depression he gets control of a steel mill, ruins a rich rival who once snubbed him. But he neglects his wife, his only daughter dies, a victim of his money-mania, his son hates him, turns poet, loves the daughter of MacTay's ruined rival. And when MacTay dies on the eve of the World War, having just completed a vast merger, his wife is quickly comforted by the thought that death is a kindlier rival than coal mines and steel mills...