Word: costing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expenses entailed by the production of the opera will be well over $25,000, including cost of the stage lighting effects, stage settings, scenery, and many minor details, all of which will result in one of the most brilliant and spectacular effects in the history of opera staging in this country...
...lighting of the improvised opera house will cost $600 or more. Experiments have been made daily, so that the desired effects may be obtained...
...sports have been paying propositions so far this year, according to a partial report submitted by the graduate manager to the athletic association. In spite of a very heavy initial expense accompanying the return of football to Columbia last year, the gridiron game proved profitable, although the entire cost of erecting stands, fences, and of altering the playing field, were charged against the season's account. The other profitable sport is rifle shooting, adopted again this year after two years of suspension...
...camp this year will be addressed by speakers of equal ability, so that all men who are interested in the international career of the United States, who wish to "understand its foreign policy and help to mould it," would enjoy and profit by attending the meetings this year. The cost is small; the experience is stimulating; the time is such that this conference may conveniently be made a preliminary to the July camps at Plattsburg. Any of the dozen University undergraduate and graduate students who were at last year's conference will be glad to give information, and full details...
...bedrooms. It is estimated that if such a building were available in Boston at least 40,000 sailors would sleep in it each year. In Brooklyn, where the building is about twice the size of the one needed in Boston, the sailors themselves pay 80 per cent of the cost of operation and over 100,000 men slept in it during 1914. Nearly 300 men are turned away nightly while the fleet is in port...