Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many wise saws and instances that aid him across the channel from secondary school, the Freshman is the victim of advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into at least the mechanics of the present system...
Country Club, where Gene Sarazen won the national open in 1922. He was one of the few golf officials who did not condemn steel shafts when they were put on the market. He gave them a fair trial, repudiated the idea that they were invested with magic qualities which would make a good golfer out of a bad one, defended their use in tournaments against the U. S. G. A. and the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. He announced that his first acts as Tsar of the P. G. A. would be to raise the membership fees...
...incomes of $5,000,000 or over. In 1928, 13 others joined this select group. Million-dollar incomes increased from 290 to 496. While not all millionaires necessarily have a millionaire's income, and some people with millionaires' incomes often fall far short of the seven magic figures in actual wealth, during 1928 exactly 42,613 people reported incomes of $50,000 ($1,000,000 @ 5%). In 1927 there had been only 33,695 in this class. Not only rich men grew in number, as the following table of total people reporting shows...
...twelve years Sadko sailed the seas, accumulating wealth, forgetting to pay tribute to the King of the Sea who had given him the magic fish. When he remembered, gold, silver and pearls were not enough and Sadko had to sacrifice himself. In the sea, the grisly King would have chastised him but Volkhova intervened. She and Sadko married, with undines, lobsters, jellyfish and whales for guests. During the dancing which followed, the old king worked himself into a frenzy, called down everlasting grief upon all ships and men. But St. Nicholas, a legendary hero, saved Novgorod and stripped the King...