Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...planned that twenty men at a cost of 8500 apiece charter the steamer "Leopard," of 320 tones (gross) and explore the coasts of Greenland as far as Disko, of Baffin Land to the head of Frobisher Bay, and of Labrador, including Ungana bay and the high mountain ranges on the northern coast. The "Leopard" has sufficient coal capacity for this cruise, is built to penetrate ice-fields, and would be very roomy for a party of twenty. The chief aim of this expedition will be to combine geological sight-seeing with as much serious exploration as possible...
...annual meeting of the University Football Association was held recently. R. B. Hixon, president of the association, made the following statement of finances: Gross receipts, 44,428,66; expenditures, $22,356.89; net receipts...
Longmans, Green and Company have recently published a book by Professor Gross of the History Department on "The Sources and Literature of English History from the Earliest Times to about...
...gross receipts of the Harvard-Yale football game amounted to $41,844.00. Of this sum Yale received 55 per cent., or $22,019.25, and Harvard 45 per cent., or $18,015.75, after a deduction of $1,809.00 for expenses had been made...
...thirty to forty per cent, although there has been some decline in the animal products quoted. Mr. Wright then showed his own tables which give the increase in the purchasing power of gold and the decrease in that of silver. But in reality the increase in the laborer's gross earnings has been to a great extent curtailed by reason of the expenses resulting from the improvements in his condition. On the other hand, the improvement in the condition of the laborer is largely due to the benefits he receives as a consumer from the cheapening of production. This great...