Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult and already opulently solved. Hopefully, Yale looks to a liberalizing of the cut system to cure or kill. Harvard, not less plutocratic than the majority of America's colleges, with its increasing expenses, and its obvious goose-stepping with the general trend toward a greater display of material wealth, this Harvard is still waiting for a liberal cut system to do more than emphasize the main dilemma...
...ninth volume of Henry Adams' History of the. United States. "The traits of American character were fixed; the rate of physical and economical growth was established; and history, certain that at a given distance of time the Union would contain so many millions of people, with wealth valued at so many millions of dollars, became thenceforward chiefly concerned to know what kind of people these millions were to be. They were intelligent, but what paths would their intelligence select? They were quick but what solution of insoluble problems would quickness hurry? They were scientific, and what control would their...
Farther down the hall, guarded from the main corridor by two secretarial offices, is a flaming lacquer-red door. When this door is thrown open, the scene is like the bursting of a rocket. Dazzling golds, lacquer reds and blacks provide a setting for a wealth of Chinese ornament-scrolls, silks, rare carvings, vases, a golden Buddha. The walls are papered with golden Chinese tea-paper. On the floor is a great rug of gold, red & black with a geometric pseudo-oriental pattern - designed by Publisher Howard and made in China to his order. The furniture is of lacquer...
...architect, an alderman, a man of wealth is clever little Purchaser Bossom. Like Sculptor Epstein he is of Semitic descent. His wealth derived from his conception and industrious execution of the idea of building skyscrapers like a graduated pile of boxes with the smallest on top - the "set back'' style to provide air and light. He designed the Seaboard National Bank in New York (Seaboard Pres ident Samuel Bayne is his father-in-law), the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress...
Last week Nanking Theological Seminary was as excited as it had not been since the city was bombarded in 1927 and President Harry F. Rowe was forced to flee in trousers and shirt. According to press despatches, Nanking Seminary was to receive not merely wealth, but riches incredible. The news said $13,000,000. That would be more than the endowments of all missionary universities and schools in China put together.* In buying power it would equal $50,000,000 in the U. S. As if Princeton Theological Seminary were to get a billion...