Word: debts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...would bring financial difficulties: (a) Increase of city debt. (b) Improbability of any revenue, because of (1) clamor for low rates, and (2) no incentive for economy among officials. (c) Difficulty in government handling so large a number of employees...
Judging from the score of the game with the graduates last Friday it is fair to expect a close and exciting game with them today. No one can feel more keenly than we the debt which the students owe the graduates for the time and attention which they devote to the training of the team. We can thank them most heartily for the spirit which prompted them, out of training as they were, to line up against the 'varsity for two ten minute halves. Yet we cannot but feel that in Friday's game, especially toward the end, the game...
...this debt half has been hanging over for the past two or three years. The chief cause of this deficit has been the unfavorable weather in which the games have been held...
...Newsboy's Debt, Anon...
Swift was born poor. He lived as a child in an atmosphere of debt, difficulty, and dependence on bounty. At college, be met only failure and disgrace. It was not till he was settled as the secretary of Sir William Temple, one of the most diplomatic counsellors and elegant scholars of the realm, that Swift found himself in congenial circumstances. Out of the great library, he stocked his mind with the literary and political knowledge that made his after career possible...