Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...will be dropped in press and in conversation. The beautiful tribute to Professor James in the second gives expression to the love and respect held for him by all his former students. The paragraph in "public lectures given in the University" is interesting as snowing our quickness in detecting cheap sentiment, affectation, and our inability to divorce the man, as we see him superficially and are impressed, from the cause which we know even less. The statement that we listened to Mr. Aladyin "with awe and admiration" is true--and sad, because it shows that we are willing to applaud...
...first association for railway men in the Orient was opened a year ago this month at Jamalpur, a city of 75,000 on the East Indian railway: and during the last year work has been started also in behalf of the army, at Madras, for example, cheap suppers being served to an average of about 140 soldiers every night. Many of the associations provide facilities for tennis, etc., and some of the Association cricket and football teams are among the best in India...
...Avenel said that land-wealth had greatly increased of late years, whereas formerly, when land was cheap, great tracts had been held by single individuals. Land rents in the Middle Ages were more indirect than direct, and were levied more on the people than on things produced on the land. A great element of recent fortunes is town and city property, whether built on or not, and this was almost unknown to the people of the Middle Ages. Land which has been built on in France, has increased in value from three to twelve million dollars in the last...
...accompanied by cheers. The performance is repeated as each new person arrives, until when the Hall is filled, the uproar is general, loud and continuous. The staring is not only extremely rude, but very embarrassing for any one subjected to it, and the noise and tapping is silly and cheap...
...banker who wants to extend his credit in the form of notes, to deposit in the Treasury United States bonds equivalent in value to the amount of notes he proposes to issue. By this rule those who cannot make use of the loan and deposit credit, which is relatively cheap, are obliged to trade by means of monies capital--that is, coin and greenbacks--which is a comparatively expensive process. This is most unjust, because the burden falls chiefly on the rural districts which use deposit credit very little and are the least able to bear the burden. The system...