Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Subsidizing has frequently proved a most effectual way of building up a merchant marine.- (a) It is through it that England, France, and other maritime powers have attained their supremacy: Bates, Am. Marine, pp. 85-87; Lipp. Mag. pp. 720 seq.- (b) When tried in the United States it proved successful: Hall, Am. Nav., 56-58,- (c) The results of the present system have gone far to justify subsidizing...
...estimated that the Olympic fund raised in Greece to meet the expense of the revival of the Olympic games next April at Athens will reach 1,000,000 drachmae or $193,000, besides 600,000 drachmae given by a Greek merchant of Alexandria, named Averoff, for the purpose of rebuilding the Panathenaic Stadion. The crown prince and his brothers are deeply interested in the enterprise. The king having promised to award in person the prizes of silver olive wreaths, and the Government will issue special commemorative postage stamps, a part of the proceeds of which will go to the Olympic...
...names, and the citizens are kept en rapport with the debit and credit account of the city. The showing up of the men and their methods in this point blank fashion has earned for Mr. Welsh a reputation among those who say with the Prince of Arragon in the Merchant of Venice...
...upon every star as a tyrant, and when I became a star I looked upon every stock actor as a conspirator. Shakespeare invented the starring system. Hamlet, Shylock, Macbeth, Coriolanus are all stars. These plays also were written to illustrate human passions; Othello, jealousy; Macbeth, fate; Coriolanus, the autocrat; Merchant of Venice, revenge...
...cost of erecting the new library at One Hundred and Sixteenth street, on Morningside Heights, the site of the new Columbia College building. The building is to cost $1,000,000, and is to be a memorial to President Low's father, the late Abiel Abbot Low, "a merchant who taught his son to value the things for which Columbia stands...