Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...visitors room are huge folios which are "not to be handled without permission. "By way of relics, there is a brand new book carved out of a piece of wood taken from the Washington Elm. On the back is a picture of the old tree with its affluent branches, making a "cavern of cool shade." Below the roots of the tree is a pretty little scene representing a very wooden-looking soldier about to charge into the mouth of an innocent-looking cannon which protects a camp of wigwam-like tents. This book has a feature which many a freshman...
...affluent parents may spend at Harvard from $1,000 to $1,800 without acquiring a reputation for extravagance. While at Oxford, England, a commoner has been known to spend Pound2,000, or even pound3,000 a year without exciting comment...