Word: million
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...time. The modern man, however, removed from hostile environment in a state of society which by the aid of machinery enormously multiplies production, cannot, even by working incessantly, get enough to eat, and must live in a state of wretchedness which no cave man ever knew. Ten million people in the United States are unable to obtain enough food to support mere working efficiency. They are, in other words, starving. Wretchedness itself is impersonated by the children in the southern textile mills, who, at the age of five, work 12 hours a day to earn ten cents...
...vocabulary in a month or six weeks. Anyone reading Esperanto at sight can understand a large proportion of it. The key to the language can be mailed with a letter so that the recipient of the letter may be sure of getting its entire meaning. Over half a million people are now able to speak and write Esperanto. At a recent Congress of "Esperantists," people from 20 different nations understood one another perfectly and the system proved in every way a success...
Ainslee's--"The Maid, the Aunt and the Million," by A. Autro '91, "For Book Lovers," by A. L. Sessions...
...tuition fee is for the present dismissed. The best form of endowment President Eliot says is that for salaries, and he suggests the endowment of assistant professorships, instructorships and assistantships, as well as professorships. Gifts ranging from $12,500 to $125,000 could thus be most advantageously applied. Two million, five hundred thousand dollars is named by the President as a moderate estimate for the accomplishment of the reasonable objects now plainly in view for the College proper. His report closes with the words, "The oldest, the most essential and the most beloved department of Harvard University now needs...
...March, "Hoch Habsburg," Kral 2. Overture, "Masaniello," Auber 3. Waltz, "Eternelle Ivresse," Ganne 4. Selection, "Girofle-Girofla," Lecocq 5. Entr'acte, "Philemon et Baucis," Gounod 6. "La Belle au Bois Dormant," Tschaikowsky 7. Country Dance, Nevin 8. Selection, "Rigoletto," Verdi 9. Overture, "Banditenstreiche," Suppe 10. Waltz, "Seid umschlungen, en," Million-Strauss 11. Selection, "Babette," Herbert 12. March, "Teufel," Suppe