Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorndike concludes that the good town is a place where most citizens enjoy the creature comforts, take good care of their own families, live respectable, unpretentious bourgeois lives, that only 35% of a town's desirability as a place to live is accounted for by wealth and income; 55% depends on the character of the people and 10% on other factors...
...shelf or shelves devoted to the subject in which the student is interested. There the contact man points out books relating to the same topic, those as nearly similar as possible and likely to be helpful as a substitute until the desired book is returned. With Widener's wealth of books, it would be difficult to find a topic on which there weren't several volumes available. The chances are therefore fairly good that a stop-gap book could be discovered...
...past, it may be because there are so many moderns in the Morley revision. Editor Morley included George Ade ("Never put off until Tomorrow what should have been Done Early in the Seventies"), many newspaper rhymesters, Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor...
...Jacksons and the Lees" subtitled "Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765-1844" by Kenneth Wiggins Porter, assistant professor of History and Political Science at Southwestern College, 2 volumes, 1625 pages, 44 illustrations, $10.00. From hitherto inaccessible family archives is presented a wealth of material on interest to students of general American history and business history...
Desiring to advance his reputation, the impulsive Tom took his family to Bath in 1759, then the center of fashionable wealth. Soon his studio became thronged; he raised his prices for half-lengths and had Sterne and Richardson, Quin and Garrick sit for him. Within fifteen years he was in London, prosperous, giving away his sketches and landscapes, dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than...