Word: loans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last day of receiving applications for the Bright and Bigelow Scholarships, and for aid from the Loan Fund...
...appear is the young man who has a fine set of surveying instruments in pawn, and wishes to borrow money enough to redeem them. As all his former friends have failed him he wishes to add you to the circle of his acquaintance and offers to reimburse any small loan you may feel inclined to make, out of the proceeds of his future surveys...
...first visit to the Conservatory was made quite recently on the occasion of an "Informal Reception, Art School and Loan Exhibition of Paint tings," as the invitation read. Perhaps I had to fish for my invitation; but then fishing is not always an unpleasant sport. I caught a good sized fish; and with it came up such snags and grasses as a couple of sweet-scented cards, and trailing along after them a note. Of course I threw none of this booty back into the water...
...concert, which by the way was held in the dino-concert, or concertodining, hall, having come to an end, the next thing to attract my attention was the Art School and Loan Exhibition of paintings. It was hard to study very carefully any of the pictures on account of the constant crowding of the guests. One of the paintings, however, took my attention for some time. It was entitled, "Waiting for Breakfast." A little girl stood before a stove watching a woman, presumably her mother, fry buckwheat cakes. The title and the plate of cakes (resting on the front edge...
...Paid as loan...