Word: emporium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Occasionally he packs his grip, walks to the depot (or rides in his battered 1914 model) and goes to Europe for as long or as short as he likes. But mostly he stays near the farmland where he was bred, buys his clothes at the local emporium...
...Tiber's muddy banks have yielded up a colossal statue of Minerva. It was discovered by workmen on the site of the old Emporium which was a landing place for marbles shipped from Greece to Imperial Rome. Antiquaries declare that the statue might have been dropped into the mud by Roman stevedores...
Many of the students who come to Harvard College as Freshmen come under strained financial conditions, and their choice of Harvard as the emporium of higher education is largely influenced by the reputation the college has of offering many opportunities for needy students to work their way through. There are two methods: one, by winning scholarships through honor marks; and the other, by taking positions in and about Boston which do not conflict with recitations...