Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, appointed Latin Orator for the Tercentenary. This talk will be followed by a formal recital of the acts constituting the Founding of Harvard College by Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History and Tercentenary Historian. A representative from the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, not yet chosen, will then deliver an address...
...FLOWERS-Judith Kelly- Harper ($2). In this provocative first novel, Author Kelly presents with earnestness and frequently with hysteria the dilemma of a beautiful young Bostonian who enjoys her wealth but deplores its implications. Author Kelly has an irritating trick of bearing down on her favorite adjectives: The heroine is "sleek," "sly," "vivid" and "expensive...
When Philadelphia burgeoned into a metropolis, Girard's endowment, shrewdly invested in downtown real estate and Schuylkill County coal leases, rocketed. The 104-year-old Girard endowment now totals $88,844,000. Only Harvard and Yale are richer than this charity elementary and high school. Sprouted from its wealth are 28 more white marble buildings, within which 1,700 orphans, a staff of 600, live a life more generous than the Founder ever knew. From a long waiting list the College annually selects 150 boys, indentures them until they are 18. Moppets as young as 6 are admitted. They...
...potential oil lands which I had acquired were not fully tested and were stamped as practically worthless by the prosecution. It is a fact, and this has not been repeated by those who have tried to defame me, that some of the lands under question have since produced wealth of millions, far beyond the wildest assertions which I had made in literature and letters of the company...
...lines were cast in pleasant places. He was born the eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent...