Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...additional income from the money set aside for the Coolidge Prize, which was founded in 1911, is used in awarding gold medals to all the members of the University debating team...
...task of raising the money for this loan is that of the entire nation, and not of any one class or group of citizens," said N. P. Hallowell '97, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee of New England, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. "Take this committee as an example. We are here offering our services--a practically self-appointed committee--advocating the sale of Liberty Bonds, yet there is no more reason for our being here than for any or all of you men out at Cambridge doing the same thing. All of the people of this nation...
...Bonds instead of things which he does not now need, however much he may desire them. In the first place, if one intends to buy a luxury, now is a poor time to buy it, because prices are inflated and one will not get very much for one's money. The same money, if one will save it, will buy more after the war is over and prices have returned to a normal level. A Liberty Bond is as good as cash and can readily be turned into cash. Besides, if one will save the interest one will have more...
...better, also, for industry in general that the individual who has money to spend for luxuries should postpone it until the war is over. To spend money now gives employment to men when they do not need it, when jobs are abundant and labor scarce. To spend it then will give employment to men when they need it very much, when millions of men will be released from the armies and the munition factories, when men will be numerous and jobs relatively few. To spend money now while the Government is spending so much is only to increase abnormally...
...insights of war and of salvaging the social wreckage that forms in its wake. (2) Modern life overemphasizes the materialistic. Strong enough in any age, the magnetic pull of the almighty dollar is redoubled in this age of material expansion. Mr. Lazarus talks as if we heard nothing of money in everyday life. The function of the college is not to copy life, but to correct...