Word: wealthier
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Strenge, the chief of police, has a sister, a widow, and a pretty niece, both of them looking for suitable husbands. Ripphard, the wealthiest man of the village, who has been courting the widow, transfers his affections to the wealthier and prettier niece, using the power of his money to force her uncle, the chief of police, to consent. Naturally enough the wilful and pretty niece falls in love with one of the three suspects, the widow bestows her affection on another, and a pretty mix-up ensues...
...really local character of its interests. Some thirty years ago, a great change took place in American life. The population gradually drew into large units, whose interests were everywhere. With this, there was a further complication; namely, that the burden of taxation was badly distributed, as the wealthier classes lived in adjacent towns, leaving the poorer householders of the city to bear the major burden of its taxes. The movement for remedying this state of affairs, has been by putting all the more important functions of the local governments into the hands of business commissions, and this principle of commissions...
...word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache. Later on we find that what is now the offertory, was a contribution in kind by the wealthier members to a feast of which all partook. This was gradually set aside, until it became a sacrifice offered by a Priest on behalf of the rest. At the Reformation the true idea was only partially restored. We must try to restore the social idea: and the Sacrament should be the centre...
...were only about four thousand in actual attendance. The teachers were provided with dwelling houses by the municipalities and were expected to devote one room to school purposes. They had not been paid their salaries for thirty-two months, and had to depend solely upon the subscriptions of the wealthier parents. Many of the schools devoted all their time to the making and selling of embroidery. In May last year the secretary of public instruction was authorized to draw up a school law. This law provided that each municipality should organize its own school system, thus making one hundred...
...robber of Cuban nationality he has come to be looked upon as the virtual founder of education in the island. When he arrived in Cuba there were some four thousand children attending school, and the teachers had to depend upon the subscriptions of the wealthier parents for their pay. There are now one hundred and twenty thousand children in school and the teachers are paid regular salaries of a very high average. In short, order has been substituted for chaos, and the educational system of Cuba is well on the road toward efficiency...