Word: millions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Over one million brick will be used in the construction of the new physical laboratory...
...threats of the governor, mentioned in an editorial, the Transcript says: "Here the governor's malice is as ignorant as it is impotent. The State and college were divorced long ago; it has no more exemption from taxation than every other college has, and pays taxes on nearly a million and a half dollars' worth of real estate in this city the same as any other corporation. There is no way for Gov. Butler to begin to make the college pay in loss of money for refusing the degree. The loss of money to be apprehended in the matter...
...million people attended the fete at Moscow in honor of the Czar's coronation on Saturday...
...York Evening Post saying so. This graceless young man, forgetting the courtesy of the superintendent and the happiness of the operatives, takes an altogether mercenary view of the matter. He calculates that the orange trees and other luxuries at Willimantic costs the country annually over a million dollars, and seems to think this is too much. This is not a fitting return for a free excursion and a free lunch...
...learning and intelligence among the many American citizens. "What we want," he says, "is not two or three centres of learning, like Oxford and Cambridge in England, where all young Americans can collect who want more than a common school education, but small colleges scattered broadcast over our three million square miles of territory where a good practical education may be obtained by students who desire to devote the four years to the mere purpose of cultivation, broadening and strengthening their minds and characters for whatever calling they may ultimately choose...