Word: prosperity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exaggeration of the fact. Men will continue to be forced to marry, or women not to marry, if they are to win their inheritance. Nevada will continue to have as many Rhodes Scholars as New York. Cat-sanitariums and homes for eeble-minded poll-parrots will continue to prosper, while "humanitarian" institutions in the literal sense of the word are suffering from want of funds. This is a part of the heritage of Past to Present...
...average moral and intellectual quality is below that of the white man, because he has not had as good a chance to develop what is in him as have the other immigrants, because there is an element in the southern states that does not want the negro to prosper, and because the negroes in the North live in islands of population in the large cities...
...tractor as an innovator and an idiot, but he will usually buy a tractor himself eventually, and then look down on the poor benighted heathen who uses horses. Consistency does not bother him as it does the upper class conservative. So if the new colony can live, love, and prosper without interference and with reasonable good fortune for any length of time, it should be an immense factor for good. The results will not be startling, or even immediately observable, but they should be both real and salutary. Once a seed is sown and given a good start...
...wonder,-in a moment of jocularity, if all science will now rush in where it formerly feared to tread, if we shall see before long the Entomological Company prepared to say it with insects, for example, we cannot help approving of a plan that will make science prosper of its own accord. At least the formation of the Psychological Corporation does away with the lack of precedent for this rare and highly desirable achievement...
...West been sordid merely. There is that matter of stadiums. No college which is truly up and doing can be quite satisfied with the athletic glory that was Greece until it is appropriately encompassed by the architectural grandeur that was Rome. And how is the drive for funds to prosper unless the driver can point with pride to teams whose victories on the embattled field are worthy of an architectural setting? So long as Carlinvilles think to gain pride and pelf by putting one over on the rival Taylorvilles and the Taylorvilles copper the game; so long as stadiums...