Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lain in a wheel-chair suffering from spinal myelitis. His wife has nursed him and supported him. But the U. S. has not been overgenerous with its rewards to the men who helped stamp out yellow fever. While one year of yellow fever was estimated to have cost the State of Louisiana alone 4,056 lives and $15,000,000, the total monthly disbursements of the U. S. in 1925 to the widows of Reed, Carroll and Lazear, and to John Kissinger was only $475 a month; in 1906 it gave only $146 a month...
...cars with wooden benches, while pushful workingmen reclined on first-class red velvet. All, however, were elated with civic pride at another feature of the new service: the one-class fare ticket is valid not only on the subway but permits transfer to busses, street cars-at no extra cost...
...having been driven out of Boston on account of a smallpox epidemic. The Province of Massachusetts, therefore, provided for the erection of a new building from the plans of Governor Bernard. The new building, which is the one still standing today, was built in 1765-67 at a cost...
...commons rendered the college independent of private boarding-houses so the buttery removed all just occasion for resorting to the different marts of luxury, intemperance, and ruin. This was a kind of supplement to commons and offered for sale to students, at a moderate advance on the cost, wines, liquors, groceries, stationery, and, in general, such articles as it was necessary and proper for them to have occasionally, and which, for the most part, were not included in the commons' fare...
...incident with increased interest in higher education is the announcement to the effect that the cost of public school education has risen rapidly, indeed amazingly, since 1914. Such a statement indicates the indubitable fact that while the press and public have been waxing clamorous and often hysterical over the state of colleges and universities, the schools have been growing if not better, at least more expensive...