Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bronze gates. No U. S. bull was ever like this one, with magnificent wings, a beard, three sets of horns and five legs. But an unmistakable bull it is. Even as U. S. tycoons of a past generation put cast-iron animals on their lawns as symbols of wealth and security, so King Sargon II of Assyria had this stone bull-and another one just like it-placed at the gates of his palace 2,600 years ago to celebrate his conquests and, superstitiously, to ward off evil spirits. Dr. Breasted's sharp-bearded little colleague, Dr. Edward Chiera...
...WORK, WEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF MANKIND-H. G. Wells-Doubleday...
...achievement was a little provincial. Herbert George Wells, in spite of all temptations to remain an English novelist, has gone Bacon one better. Wells's syllabus of knowledge, begun with The Outline of History, continued in The Science of Life, is now concluded (he says) in The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. Disagreeing with Poet Keats.† Wells considers that all you need to know will be found under the heads of history, biology, economics...
...keen look at the economic world-scene, comes to the melioristic conclusion that "this adventure may continue and our race survive." Some of the chapter-headings : The Conquest of Distance; of Hunger; of Climate; How Goods are Bought and Sold; Why People Work; How-Work is Paid for and Wealth Accumulated ; The Governments of Mankind and Their Economic and Military Warfare. Up-to-date, Mr. Wells has included a section on The Suspension of the Gold Standard by Great Britain...
Indoor polo began at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a squad containing four veterans, Crispin Cooke '32, L. S. Dillingham '34, W. F. Lewton '33, and W. C. McGuckin '34, led by F. S. Nicholas '33 reported to Coach F. D. Sharp at the Common-wealth Armory in Boston. There were no speeches, the squad setting to work at once in preparation for their first game with the 110th cavalry in the Armory on December...