Word: banking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clearly where his journey is to end, or towards what shoals and snags his boat is directed. Here in college we have been drifting along in this manner, we have not stopped to think over how far we have gone; and now when a voice from the bank utters a timely warning, and points out to us o r real condition, we are startled...
...tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately, - sp-t-t-t-r, - the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving-wheels rolled down either bank. We were half-way to Pelican Swamp after six hours' travelling. I instantly determined to leave the old lady, bab and baggage, to the tender mercies of the railway officials, and I seized my carpet-bag and walked the rest of the way in fifteen minutes...
...Aristocrat knew that his bank-stock...
...Adams, Jr., as to the over-production of railroads in the West, and the consequent over-cultivation of land, resulting in loss to both railroads and farms, were to be found in the Nation at an early date. The Nation also pointed out the lesson of the California Bank affair. But why multiply instances? The Nation is, or ought to be, in the hands of all our readers...
...With the bank-notes of papa...