Word: aid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Amherst minstrel show to aid the baseball association, will occur next Tuesday evening...
...incomplete collection is now rendered almost perfect, and the library now possesses more works on this subject than any other library in the country. The books treat principally of the history and of the early political, civic and industrial institutions of mediaeval Germany, and will undoubtedly prove a great aid to students of history, political economy and kindred sciences...
About one sixth of Goethe's works are autobiographical. Of these Professor Ripley devoted his attention to "Dichtung und Wahrheit" and "Italienische Reise." In writing the former Goethe's immediate object was to furnish to his readers a key so aid their apprehension and appreciation of the works he had already published. In this work, three volumes of which appeared in 1811, 1812 and 1813 respectively, Goethe gives a story of his early life. Many contemporary portraits also are included, among which that of Goethe's father, is especially valuable. "Truth and Fiction" is a very misleading translation...
...wish, even at the expense of repetition, to call the attention of college men once more to the pecuniary outlook for the crew. The men who have volunteered to go around and solicit aid for the crew, have, in many cases, experienced difficulty in obtaining funds even from men well able to give. We can account for this indifference only in one way. Apparently the fact that Yale will send a veteran crew to New London this year, and that our own prospects are not of the brightest nature have influenced men to avoid as much as possible the very...
...bounty would be better than a duty.- John Sherman in Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889, p. 931; Hamilton's Works, Vol. III., p. 246; (d) The beet-sugar industries of other countries have been built up by the bounty system.- Encyclopedia Brit., Vol. XXII., p. 628; (e) state aid has been an important factor in building up other industries both at home and abroad.- Lalor's Cyclopedia, Vol. III, p. 818; (f) a bounty would encourage the domestic production of sugar from beets and sorghum.- John Sherman in Congressional Record...