Word: debit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...believed life not worth having. Transitoriness, misery, and lack of reality, are the three characteristics of the Buddhist belief. Buddhism then, is a psychology without a soul, combined with a belief in transmigration. This apparent inconsistency is explained by calling that which migrates or Karma, a balance in the debit and credit account with futurity...
...unsparingly and fearlessly; the "deals" of the city politicians are exhibited to public criticism; the rentals of wharves, the selling of franchises to corporations: the buying of votes, and the corruption of the poles are instanced with facts and names, and the citizens are kept en rapport with the debit and credit account of the city. The showing up of the men and their methods in this point blank fashion has earned for Mr. Welsh a reputation among those who say with the Prince of Arragon in the Merchant of Venice...
...profit, formerly credited to the account of Railroad Bond Premiums, to a new account to be called "Gains and Losses for General Investments." It was also voted, at this same meeting of the Corporation, to charge off to this new account $4,751.13, the sum standing to the debit of the account of Unimproved Lands in Cambridge...
...effigy of Harvard is a stained glass figure in one of the refectory windows. This compares very poorly in dignity with our statue. The only record of John Harvard's writing at Emmanuel is an account book in which the students used to enter items of debit with the bursar. There is one entry in this book signed by John Harvard; and Mr. Winsor compared to his satisfaction this signature with those in the registry of the university which Harvard signed when he took his degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts. The degrees are still conferred...