Instead of regaling my children with these tales, I could simply lecture them about the virtues of thrift.

His success was due to industry and thrift.

The principle of usefulness and economy and of building the country through thrift and hard work must be adhered to in construction in a planned urban area.

How should upper income Americans balance the economic imperative to spend with the social benefits of restraint?

The work of development in the past few years had demonstrated our lack of knowledge and proved that we have not learned how to build up the country through thrift and hard work.