Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handed the man $2 and watched him write down my name, address, and telephone number. "You can't possibly lose," he assured me. "Wait until you hit the top of the list, then watch the money come pouring...
...this point I was sold on the whole deal. I had talked over the phone to the person who was on top of the list the day I joined. He was supposed to receive all the money that new members contributed that evening, and he told me he had already gotten over $300 and expected more tomorrow...
...before yesterday my $4096 bubble burst. We had another meeting in the Yard and the top man in our separate pyramid admitted that the newest members had been unable to talk anyone else into joining...
Harvard is pretty well turned out and the gullible already belong to one or more pyramids. Then the top man suggested that maybe we could slow everything down a day and thereby have an extra 24 hours in which to find recruits...
...decided that fresh blood outside the University was vitally necessary. We would try maids, ask men on the street, quiz gas station attendants. The top man vowed that the average citizen in lonely nowadays and will leap at any chance to attend parties and pick up easy money...