Word: millions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...passage of tugs and barges underneath. It should have some memorials of illustrious men and great events - a statue of John Harvard, an arch to Wendell Phillips, or a tower to Longfellow. The estimated cost of the present plan is $416,000. A suitable bridge would cost a million more, but a mean structure is the worst extravagance, and the extra money could easily be obtained by appropriations and subscriptions. The wealthy residents of the Back Bay, the land companies and the horse-railway companies to be benefited by the bridge would gladly subscribe if thereby they could secure...
...most fit man for the office of President. He is a man of genius, and one of the greatest orators and statesmen this country ever produced. I should like to see a mugwump who could write a book as Mr. Blaine did, and sell half a million copies in three years. They couldn't do it among them, even if every mugwump turned book-agent. (Laughter.) No other man awakens so much enthusiasm as Mr. Blaine does, and no other candidate can get the nomination. (Applause...
Over twenty-three million dollars has been contributed to the colleges of this country by twenty men. Three of these twenty - Stephen Girard, Johns Hopkins, and Asa Packer - gave over fourteen million dollars. - Princetonian...
...annual income of Oxford University is said to be one million dollars...
...Nathaniel J. Bradlee, W. G. A. Pattee and William McMahon, the appraisers of the estate, have returned into Suffolk County probate their inventory. While it does not reach $1,000,000, the official appraisal makes it a large estate, which eventually, in the rise of stocks, may reach the million limit. Many of the stocks and bonds are appraised less than their market value to-day. The total appraisal is $739, 487. 66; $714, 821. 53 being personal, and $24, - 666.66 real estate. Among the items of personal property are $237, 864 railroad bonds, railroad stock $312, 527, bank stock...