Word: evens
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Even should the trustees be unable to raise the $2,000,000, Mr. Rockefeller's offer will not become wholly inoperative, for the reason that he agrees to offset gifts as fast as they are made up to the $2,000,000 limit. By this means every dollar given the university during the next four years will represent double its face value...
...might be extended to the football players, and especially to the captain, at the beginning of the year. This they think might be done without implying any leniency in the subsequent estimate of the year's work. We doubt whether it is the policy of the authorities to show even such consideration as this, on the ground that no outside interests should be allowed to tax the students to the extent of preventing regular habits of work at any and all times of the year. But granting in this case that such consideration were allowed to carry weight...
...part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right we may call modern French Latin. We may do this with even better right in the latter case, for French has not suffered so much from outside changes as English. The effects of the language of the Franks on French were not so deep and lasting as those of French on English. The name Romance, often applied to the French, Italian...
Step into a Crawford Shoe Store and examine the make and quality of a Crawford Shoe at $6.00 or even...
First-class in every respect-The Crawford Shoe, though sold at $6.00, $5.00 and even $4.00, has style, comfort and good looks combined and wears well...