Word: clearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which became the unit of the Greek road measure, being 600 Greek feet, equal to 606 feet 9 inches English: twice over it - that is, from one end to the other and back again; and the third 12, 20, or 24 times over, for the various reports are not clear as to which it was. Taking the longest distance, this would only be 14.562 English feet, or just over two and three-quarter miles; and yet when the Spartan Ladas dropped down dead on completing this course, apparently it was not considered a matter of great surprise...
...firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained with the same amount of capital and goods. And this surplus must be due to the superior ability of the man himself, since in the same town with the same amount of capital one man will clear more in a year than another at the same trade. This then being established, Mr. Walker claims that it is logically true to say that those men who simply clear expenses each year ought to be the employed and not the employers, since they are using up the capital invested...
...whether silver has not changed its ratio. Perhaps the most correct statement of the case is that all these forces have had an influence and that the proportion which each has taken in the struggle is practically beyond calculation. The article puts the facts before its readers in a clear and intelligible manner which are made still clearer by numerous tables...
...Hadley, as a lecturer, is remarkably prolific in his language and clear in his enunciation. He has full command of his subject and his lectures are clear, forcible and interesting...
...reprint from the "Dickinsonian" this morning, touches upon a subject that may in the future become one of the great college questions. It is well worth the reading, for though the subject that caused its publication has little interest to us, yet the question therein shown in so clear a light concerns us as nearly as it ever can Dickinson College. To put the matter in its plainest light it is this: A student finds himself in difficulty, a difficulty which has nothing to do with his studies. The faculty take up the case and try to inform themselves accurately...