Word: million
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...death of the two ladies will go, with the remaining $300,000, to Harvard College. The money is left, too, without any restriction as to the way in which it is to be spent. By the time that the College receives this bequest it will probably amount to several million dollars, making it the most munificent bequest that has ever been left to it. Although we are not to enjoy any of the advantages of this gift ourselves, we are heartily glad to be able to look forward to a day in the future when Harvard College will not have...
Your Grandsir said they looked to him about a million strong...
PROFESSOR (endeavoring to give a student some idea of conditional sentences). "Suppose I should say, 'If I had a million dollars, I would endow the college with half of it'; what would you infer?" STUDENT (readily). "I should infer that you were a generous man." Professorial disgust. - Williams Athenaeum...
...that come to us represent the new building which Trinity College is to erect as an architectural wonder. It is to be constructed for a combination of purposes, - Chapel, Library, Dormitory, etc., all under one roof; the whole to be finished in 1877, at a cost of about one million...