Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich and almost rich, this consideration matters little. For them, relief would be extreme poverty, and they must save anyway in order to protect their usual standard. But for those to whom thrift is a real effort and virtue, for those who are striving by doing away with small luxuries to make themselves independent, self-supporting citizens, thrift means more and more a wasteful activity, and more and more citizens become dependent on the government, rather than on themselves, for economic support...
...only in these obvious ways, but in the wrigglings of tiny bacteria, causing dull pain and anger and bad temper and unhappiness in otherwise invincible souls; in the Virus, which none yet understand save as agony and slow, torturous death; in the horrid unfinished minds of morons, lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots, living feebly and bewildered and sometimes in great pain, and also in those great ideals and principles which make it necessary to keep such things in their misery; there also will you find me active...
This economy, which will amount to several thousand dollars a year, may help save the threatened minor sports which are being considered this week by financial officers of the College...
...noblesse oblige at the Fair last week, Edward VIII's most widely reported act was his prompt reaction to a red rose thrown at his feet by a girl. Turning to Sir Reginald Henry Seymour, Equerry to His Majesty, the King said, "Pick up that flower and save...
...went, year after year. Gradually Ruki's lot improved: he became a dependable worker, was finally allotted a woman. She made him save his money until there was enough in their old age to let them return home with honor. Night before they were to start Ruki's old bad habits overtook him, and he gambled it all away. Once more he signed the contract, but by now he hardly cared...