Word: coste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Private hospitality will be extended to students wherever they go, and with assistance of the reductions obtained by national unions from their governments, the cost will be kept as low as possible. Last year the students who went abroad as guests of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants obtained free visas from the countries they visited, and this year the National Student Federation of America hopes to arrange for free visas for till the students traveling under its auspices...
...Union is working with all its might to have the operators continue operation under the old agreement, until terms are arranged. But the mine operators face hard facts. The best veins in the bituminous mines of the Central Field are worked out; production can be maintained only at increasing cost. And they face the competition of the easily mined non-union fields...
...Varsity," to be run like a hotel, solely for Harvard students. Sophomores and Juniors would presumably be the only classes eligible to live there. There would be collapsible beds, shower baths with every suite, all-night elevators, with porters, servants, maids and bellboys "available at all times." The cost: $250 to $800 per annum...
...present they are building a large hotel at Knoxville, Tenn. Their activities in Florida, notably at Sarasota, cost them much...
Meanwhile Colonel Lawrence had conceived the idea of a deluxe edition of his book, illustrated by the best contemporary artists. This was printed, and the few copies offered to the public were snapped up at 30 guineas ($150) apiece; but the book cost 90 guineas per copy to produce and so Mr. Lawrence went bankrupt. The present edition is to recoup this bankruptcy. The original work, called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is now on sale in a minute U. S. edition at $20,003 a copy;? and the present volume is a very drastic abridgment...