Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the acquisition of great wealth, through a lottery ticket by the family of a poor Parisian shop-keeper. After many trials and tribulations, the family decides that it was happier when it was poor, and consequently returns to its former scale of living...
...there seems to be a feeling that an instructor who cannot talk fifty-seven minutes on every daily topic is unworthy of his hire; seldom is a class dismissed, as it well might be, at the end of forty-five minutes; seldom does an instructor confess that the wealth of excellent reading material on a certain section of the field covered by his course make two meetings a week rather than three sufficient for that period. And the number of courses in which, as a result, lectures are industriously shunned, testifies to the need for a swing towards fewer...
...tutorial discussion and in lectures. It is the function of the lecturer, as of the tutor, to suggest what books should be read, and, once they are read, to give a critical interpretation of the material covered. There is no reason to assume that in every case the wealth of an instructor's information over and above that obtainable in books, together with his interpretative views, are such that it is essential for him to talk twice a week for a half year. Thirty-two dull, padded disquisitions (and who has not heard young instructors confess to this vice?) might...
...have grown accustomed to hearing our country referred to as the richest nation in the world. In the coming winter, not only our much heralded wealth is being tested, but our entire economic and social system as well. Millions are out of jobs. Millions are suffering in this land of plenty. The most trying winter since the start of the depression faces...
...Jarrolds were not an aristocratic family, but that had not prevented them from running to seed, and in only two generations. Best of the lot, and favorite of old Grandpa Jarrold, was his widowed daughter-in-law, Evelyn. She enjoyed her position, her wealth, her adored son Dan's adoration-even her widowhood, until she met Miles Vane-Merrick. Miles was an aristocratic but land-poor farmer, an Old Etonian but intelligent and unconventional, Member of Parliament but a Laborite. And he fell in love with her though he was young enough to be her nephew. Conventional as only...