Word: costs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual cost for monitor service shows a variation from year to year. Records for 1926-27 witness that year to have been the most expensive during the last five. During the two terms of that year $3053.80 was expended in payment of montors...
...books for Harvard College have the University during the last five $6898.96, according to figures reality compiled. Monitor service for College during the same period took the University exchequer, $12- and telephone and telegraph service for the dean's office of the College cost...
...Charles C. Goodrich, wife of the tire tycoon, traveled last week from York Village, Me., to Phoenix, Ariz., in a Pullman. The cost: $3,900. The reason: Mrs. Goodrich, long and seriously ill, needed the care of a doctor, nurses, and her husband, the privacy of a single Pullman, a swift trip without stopover or change...
...stocks on the Big Board, Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. has been the dullest and dreariest. Back in 1919, it cost $2.85 a share; in 1923, one could buy it for 25?. But for the most part, it hovered around $1. And there, for a jest, three potent stockmarketeers bought it in large blocks as the wittiest of all possible Christmas gifts to their wives...
...classicism continues to outdo sensationalism, for the new novel concerns a spirited young Athenian who struggled to hold the fickle fancy of his fellow townsmen. Temperamentally he was unfitted for the struggle-one night's drunken debauch culminating in a ribald mock-performance of a religious rite cost him years of exile, to say nothing of his position as First Citizen. Alcibiades took terrible revenge on his city, instigating and leading a Spartan attack-until Athens was forced to recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian...