Word: fuel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from which the athlete is debarred. This leaves as in the catalogue the columns, Least (assisted), Economical, Moderate (modest), and Very Liberal (well to do), besides three higher grades which need but casual comment. In the lowest grade the estimate for rooms and gas is $44. This must include fuel also, for the author later gives the price of the cheapest rooms as $25 and the least expenditure for gas, $9; and since fuel is not given as a separate item, it is probably included here in all classes. $25 deducted from the estimate for clothing would leave sufficient...
...Social events of all kinds were postponed, as the livery stables refused to send out any scabs. Business was practically at a stand-still. Of the eleven hundred members of the stock exchange, thirty were present on Tuesday. Many restaurants were closed on account of lack of fuel...
...pebbles which made them were next shown, while the cause of their formation was being explained. Then pictures of glacial deposits some 95 feet thick were presented. Cedar logs of large size are often buried in these and the lecturer said that while camping in Alaska his only fuel was preglacial woods many thousands of years...
This large annual business transacted exclusively with about seven hundred members has been due to the fact that, by means of the Society, students have been buying their books, stationary, men's furnishings, fuel sporting and athletic goods and many sundry other necessaries at very near wholesale cost, and that the Society has furnished its members excellent facilities for conducting their business, without having made any use whatever of money tendered to it gratuitously...
...circular will be widely distributed, the particulars may be omitted here, with the remark that they comprise matters of latitude and longitude, elevation above the sea, prevalence of snow, proximity of fuel and water, means of access, statistics or approximate information as to rainfall at different seasons, prevalence of clouds mists, smoke of forest fires, dust, high winds, frequency of thunder-storms, duration of rainy or cloudy season, etc. - Advertiser...