Word: expend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...divided the benefits to be gained under three heads-the military, the economic advantages, and political expediency. In case of was with England the frontier opens along its whole line an easy way to get troops into this country. Secondly, it was foolish for the United States to expend $4,500,000 a year to keep a guard along the frontier to prevent smuggling. Thirdly, the troublesome fishery question would be entirely gained. F. B's. Williams, '88, for the negative, declared that Canada would not come in of her own accord, that there would always be a sectional line...
...costumes of the Greek play are to be sold to the actors at fifty per cent. of their original cost. This plan is peculiar from the fact that the more any one individual did for the success of the play, the more he has to expend to obtain a momento. Indeed, this scheme is so consistently carried out, that Dikaiopolis and Lamachos cannot obtain their costumes at any price - they being retained for "preservation." Pennsylvanian...
...bored by requests from utter strangers "to have the kindness to tell me where I can find Mr. So-and-So." Of course we are civil enough to consult our index or catalogue and oblige the gentlemen, but we are bored none the less. But if the authorities would expend a few dollars on arrangements such as Felton is provided with, the trouble would be remedied. As spring approaches, the number of visitors to the college increases, and this arrangement would be joyfully received by all parties. The college very generously granted our request in regard to the compressed...
...mouth when it falls, a trick worthy of an organ grinder's monkey, but entirely out of place in a dining room. Now let these freshmen who have not been with us long enough to know that Harvard is no nursery, turn over a new leaf and expend some of their pocket money for a book on "table etiquette." It is high time that such childish actions were abolished, and that a realization of their position be forced upon them...
...members of the senior class at Columbia propose to expend between $800 and $1200 for books upon one subject, and present them to their Alma Mater as a class memorial...