Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well marked that Dr. Little's denunciation of the stagnation of college faculties and governing bodies arouses sympathetic agreement. It is obvious that the colleges are static and unprogressive, not because they do not know where to go, but because the present situation is too comfortable. The wealth of his examples showing the narrowness, prejudice, and unproductive conservatism of the institutions of higher learning as a whole amazes even those who are in close contact with the most clamorous evils...
Bashford Dean was born in New York in 1867. Scion of frugal Dutch and English ancestors who had lived in the vicinity of Riverdale-on-the-Hudson since the 17th Century, it was his good fortune never to want for money. His wealth was lucky for him, for no one has ever yet made a fortune from either of Bashford Dean's hobbies, ichthyology or armor...
Politics. "The degree to which governing bodies of some institutions can stand punishment for the sake of increased wealth is amazing. They can even encourage further inroads in matters of academic freedom and educational procedure by donors who have actually for years been interfering personally in the appointment of personnel, and in the detailed administration of educational units in the government of which they have legally no right, and intellectually, no qualifications...
...unmarried and living with him is 22-year-old daughter Eileen for whom his yacht the Eileen, once the Doris, is named. Solly spends most of his time in England in his London office on Austin Friars. At least once a year, however, he visits Capetown. Huge is his wealth but no man has ever publicly estimated...
...Queen" Mary mustered about 200 followers; Judge Dewhirst the same. Thus it was not surprising that, after months of litigation, the question was settled out of court by dividing equally the cult's property and wealth, reputedly a matter of several hundred thousand dollars, farmlands in Michigan and Australia...