Word: adams
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost-Will the gentleman who took the black cane with silver top from Adam's restaurant last Thursday kindly return the same to the restaurant...
...second auditor of the Treasury department has decided that General Adam Badeau is not an officer in the United States army, and that he is improperly borne upon its rolls...
This is but the expression of an opinion that has been long since advanced by Adam Smith, but the fact that it comes from the president of a university that is noted for the liberality of its scholarship system gives it a new and greater interest. It is generally thought that the best disposal a man could make of his money was to found some scholarships in a college which would aid the poor student and reflect credit upon the profession which the student entered...
...nothing short of offering a prize to young men to adopt a certain profession. A man who enters a profession with the aid of outside means, and not by the aid of his own native talents and feelings, will not do much to ennoble that profession. Besides, according to Adam Smith, it fills the profession with inferior men, who make the competition greater and hence reduce the rewards an able man has the right to expect for his labor...
...rubber watch coat with Noah's name on the inside of the collar. Dr. Schliemann is naturally very proud of his discovery, and he is so much encouraged by it that he is seriously thinking of discovering the Garden with the remains of the original serpent, together with Adam's lawn-mower and other garden tools in the inexhaustible Hill of Hissarlik...