Word: adding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor C. A. Young, of Princeton, has been elected President of the Association for the Ad vancement of Science...
...best playing for Exeter was done by her half-back, Holden, whose run in the first three-quarters was by ad odds the prettiest play of the game. For Harvard, the rushing of Cochrane, Fletcher and Brooks was noticeable, and the kicking of Willard was particularly good. Although the freshmen at times played a loose game, yet as a whole, they did very creditably in this their first important game of the season, and with a little more practice in picking up the ball and in tackling their chances seem very good. The rushing of several...
...made, and this fact gave rise to the preparation of the Morrill bill in 1861. The object of the bill was to cause duties to return to what they were in 1846, and it was intended to be protective. Its distinguishing feature was the substitution of specific for ad valorem duties. The chief changes in the taxation were upon wool and pig iron. For the first time in the history of tariff taxation "compensating duties" were introduced. The general effect of this bill was to raise duties above those fixed by the bill...
...leader of the Republican party at that time. All the tariffs after this were the results of party feeling. The tariff of 1833 was a compromise act between the two parties, and was arranged by Clay and Calhoun. Its purpose was to bring all duties to twenty per cent. ad valorem. This is probably the poorest tariff passed by any nation. The Congress which came in in 1842 put in a new tariff, entirely different from that of 1833. The Whigs being then in power, passed a bill for the levying of very high duties, and the bill was prompted...
...long satirical poem, curiously called "The Ad," which runs throughout the volume and which is credited to Everett, is conducted with much spirit through its long course. I cannot describe it; it is rambling and incoherent and professedly a local satire. It is in heroic couplets, and Mr. J. Lowbard is its titular author. To display its character I need only quote parts of the argument of one book, which treats of "The arts of rising in the world - Marriage - Poetry - Dolphins - Geese - British Cruisers - Spithead - Aphorisms of two kinds, sharp and flat...