Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gulf between college students and the great hordes of American industrial workers is vast; only in isolated individual instances is it crossed. The social and political outlook of the country's educated classes is monumental evidence of the insularity of the average college graduate in the midst of a nation of factory girls, steel workers, miners and lumberjacks. The humanitarian spirit in America has made great strides in the last half century, but to too small an extent has it been grounded on a just understanding of the actualities of the workers' existence. Even future captains of industry who sift...
...lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There were the Dixie Highway, the East Coast Canal, the East Coast Railway, and hard beside, Fort Lauderdale with a fine natural harbor. Architecture was to be of the Mediterranean-Caribbean type, carefully supervised so that "each house, however simple, shall be an artistic gem." Though...
...might tell you how my father and mother, my wife and myself were nearly drowned in the Gulf of Corinth on Thanksgiving...
...more interesting cases is that of the Gulf Oil Co., in which Secretary Mellon is or was interested. The company paid taxes of over $10,000,000 for 1915-19 and got a refund of nearly $4,000,000. The case was settled in about a week after amended returns were filed in February, 1921, although in many cases such settlements drag out for months, years. The Committee claims that the company should not only have had no refund, but should have paid $600,000 additional. In the warfare between Senator Couzens and Secretary Mellon, the case has only...
...nearly 40 years he followed his hazardous calling, North Sea or Gulf of Guinea all one to him in the line of trade. Profoundly pious he peddled Medford rum or flour with the equally clear conscience of the times. Regretfully we leave him at 80, a ruddy-cheeked old man, on a little farm of his own; "the wind has got around to the south," as he returns from a visit to the young orchard...