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Word: wealth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Album is an annual headache to even the most industrious Committee, because there is a wealth of small detail and business problems that rear their ugly little heads every year, screaming for attention from a harrassed staff. In the past the Album Committee have been inexperienced, and consequently have had more difficulty in putting out the annual tome then a more experienced group would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALBUM ALTERATIONS | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...stimulation of an objective match toward which to point, the boxing team was like a solitaire artist, unable to offer its wares to competition. Now that the sham responsibility of meeting incompetent and undesirable opposition has been lifted from its shoulders, the team can turn its attention to the wealth of intramural activity that lies in store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE IN THE PALAESTRA | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

Freshmen continued to show a wealth of strength, but in the 1000 and 600-yard races runoff today, they were decisively routed, their greatest power being shown in the shot put and pole vault, which were the remaining two events on today's calendar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY TRACKMEN NOSE OUT YARDLINGS | 12/16/1936 | See Source »

...mine in the Valley after the Gunsight was the Breyfogle. Huge, big-footed Louis Jacob Breyfogle found it in 1864, brought back ore that was rotten with gold, but he had been so tormented by his Indian captors that he went crazy whenever he approached the area of his wealth and suffering. The Indians had started following him from curiosity, unable to believe that the enormous tracks he left could have been made by a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gold & Death | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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