Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...really implies in connection with a football organization. There have been popular demonstrations from time to time in the past decade in favor of this or that system with very little knowledge of just what was being acclaimed. The only external evidence of some systems has been a copious amount of notes on the work of the year, discussing each situation as it arose and giving a detailed account in writing of just what was done in every step of the work, all this information to be handed down to future years for their instruction and edification. Other systems have...
...annual dividend of the Co-operative Society, amounting to 8 per cent., will be paid at the Co-operative office on this and succeeding mornings, between 9 and 12 o'clock. It will be the largest ever paid by the society, the profits being nearly $15,000, and the greatest individual amount $141. Last year's membership cards must be presented in order to obtain payment...
...were inclined to make light of the statements made frequently last spring of the general lack of attention to collegiate duties on the mornings of football games will be interested in the announcement of the Student Council published on another page. The figures show an alarming amount of cutting of twelve o'clock appointments on the mornings of the Carlisle and Dartmouth games. There was an average of sixteen cuts in the ten courses held at twelve o'clock on the day of the Indian game, and an average of almost twenty-three cuts on the day of the Dartmouth...
...writer finds himself in a dilemma when making application for tickets for the Harvard-Yale game. One of the conditions of the acceptance of his application is that he shall put stamps to the amount of twelve cents on the envelope that is to enclose his tickets later on; and this requirement is particularly emphasized by the use of capitals. The writer believes that the requirement involves unnecessary postage to the amount of two cents on every application--assuming the registration fee to be eight cents and that two cents will bear the weight of the envelope and its contents...
...week of the game. Whereas, by all good rules of mathematics and accounting the ordinary two cent postage required for a letter plus the registration fee of eight cents equals ten cents, the Association is charging its patrons twelve cents and stating that unless each envelope contains the required amount of stamps, no tickets will be sent out. In other words, it is overcharging each applicant two cents in postage, and the intimation seems to be more that the Association has put the requirement at twelve cents chiefly because it did not take the trouble to look into the matter...