Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude to disturb and threaten our national life. It is right that each man should ask himself, landlord, farmer, and laborer, is this scheme just and fair...
...novel twist of one of the oldest existing publicity ideas-the lottery scheme-recently occurred, simultaneously, to the editors of certain vulgar U. S. newspapers. To issue lottery tickets redeemable for cash is, of course, forbidden by law. But, since all paper bills are numbered, why not, thought the editors, make currency itself the lottery tickets? Every day certain newspapers began to publish the serial numbers of $1 and $2 bills. Persons who found lucky-number bills in their possession could redeem them for substantial prizes. Cashiers began to spend hours reading the numbers of all the bills that passed...
Last week in Washington Solicitor Donnelly of the Postoffice Department declared the scheme to be a "distribution of prizes by chance," and barred "lucky bill" newspapers from the mails...
...student entering Harvard, if he would make his college life both happy and profitable, must learn to reconcile seeming opposites. He must fit into the general scheme of things, and at the same time preserve his individuality. This is possible only where a spirit of broad tolerance prevails. Of this relation of Harvard to the individual, Dean Briggs has said...
Attractions of the scheme: the interest received by donors is free of income tax until its aggregate equals the principal of the gift; income to the donor is guaranteed by the entire resources of the recipient institution; the institution enjoys an immediate increase in capital, especially desirable in contingencies such as the Eastman offer above cited; likely donors may be induced, and given opportunity, to make bequests, and see their fruits, before dying...