Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical" education, the Classics are still the fundamental of education, almost indispensable to one who intends to pursue a literary career. They are also "practical" in the intense mental discipline which they give to the student--something that is lacking in the more loosely organized cultural studies. Furthermore, the wealth of Antiquities thought provides a much more extensive and exciting field for cultivation than is contained in the more modern periods...
...comparative wealth of the Department and the dividends in time and attention from tutors and teachers should be an incentive for students to enter the Classics. The University, as it has done in the past, continues to hold aloft the torch of classicism, such...
...require technical knowledge or intensive study that wide choice can be had. In the category of courses attractive to auditors are Music 1, Fine Arts 1e, and survey courses in Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. English literature, history, and special fields of government-such as international relations-all offer a wealth of interesting information. Even if the auditor absorbs less than half of what the regular in-course student learns, he is adding much to his intellectual equipment...
...marks) and forbade sales and transfers of Jewish property without Government permission. Göring also provided stiff prison terms for recalcitrants using "Aryan" dummies or splitting up their properties. Nazi spokesmen admitted that the decree was a preliminary measure to dispossession and confiscation of what Jewish wealth still remained in Germany...
Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. did not rise from boyhood poverty in West Virginia to wealth and power in Pennsylvania by wasting dollars or handshakes on nonentities. He bows low to the right people, bids low on the right jobs. His perspicacity in switching from the Republican to the Democratic trough in 1932 also has contributed materially to his emergence as Pennsylvania's Public Contractor No. 1. To Pennsylvanians born & bred in gutter politics, it therefore seems perfectly natural that blue-eyed Little Matt should draw first mud in this State's muddled Democratic primary campaign...