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Word: costs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chestnut to match the wood-trimmings in the hall, make it necessary to order a new one. A case nine feet long, six feet high, background of black cotton velvet, wire rests for the balls, sliding doors of plate glass, and the inscription carved in the top, will cost $175, - with common glass in the doors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BASE-BALL CASE. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...side of the subject. It takes so long to work up the great number of principles contained in the lectures, that no time is left to learn their application. As a result, the difficulty of the study is greatly increased, and it becomes impossible to retain what it has cost so much labor to master. This lack of practical drill is the great fault of the whole system. Students hardly ever acquire any facility in the use of Mathematics. Men cannot be expected to elect a subject which is sure to bring them so much hard, dry work and such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHEMATICS AT HARVARD. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

...FRESHMAN recently gave his address to the money-order clerk, and pompously asked how much it would cost to have his mail delivered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...iron stairway in Holyoke will cost about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...Yale Opera House is to be a large, fine building, and will cost $75,000. It will have a seating capacity of 2,500; will contain a stage seventy-five feet long by forty deep, a dancing-hall seventy-five by sixty-five feet, and a large dining-hall for the convenience of Junior and Senior promenades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

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