Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as over 60 men were on hand for yesterday's practice it will be necessary to cut the squad down to workable size, and for this reason it is expected that Coach Stubbs will make an early cut. At present there is a wealth of material from which to build a strong sextet...
...thanks for the excellent story on The Current Jewish Record (TIME, Nov. 9). Your staff writer has compressed a wealth of material into his half-column story...
Smith to Gladstone- To Adam Smith, who published his epochal The Wealth of Nations in 1776, occurred the unusual idea that when anything is bought or sold profit accrues to both buyer and seller. Before Thinker Smith and since, the tendency of human nature has been to assume that the seller outsmarts the buyer. Nations try to outsmart each other by selling more than they buy. Each assumes that by erecting a tariff wall it will smartly reduce its own purchases (imports) while continuing to push its sales (exports...
...spoken in a proper European manner as a natural part of everyday existence, it becomes alive and inspiring. The best of college does not provide nearly so wide and opportunity for acquiring facility in pronunciation and conversation. In general the same principle applies to other fields as well. The wealth of material in the Louvre should be a welcome supplement to the limited resources of the Fogg Museum, where Perry prints are used in lieu of the great originals...
...late Boies Penrose (1860-1921), born to wealth and position in Philadelphia, Harvard-educated, wanted to be a leader but disliked respectable people. So he went into politics. A big fellow (6 ft. 4 in.) with big appetites, a cold heart, a shrewd head, he took to low life like a hippopotamus to water. When he was sent to the State Legislature he refused to truckle to Pennsylvania Boss Matthew Stanley Quay. Quay was impressed, made Penrose first his protege, then his partner. The Penrose path was broad and easy: he ambled into the U. S. Senate, into the counsels...