Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...price of board at the Dining Association, including the steward's head money, is $3.98 per week for the month of October. The auditor's report is published below...
Dividing this balance, $13,264.01 by 3,419, the number of weeks gives $3.88, and adding head-money 10, we have $3.98 as the cost of board per week during the months of September and October...
...affairs began to grow worse, murder, robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
...written. If the article "takes," we trust that next season, or even next week in the distant and truthful west, we may see a cipher or two more added to the sum. With what pleasure should every Harvard student read this glaring account of his "slinging" his papa's money...
...arriving at solutions of the problems. The last part of the chapter is devoted to the consideration of some of the political questions of the day which require a knowledge of political economy, such as the silver question, the banking question, the problem of national taxation, navigation laws, paper money as a part of the circulating medium, public land system, reciprocity with Mexico and Canada, and other questions of vital interest. A table giving the amount of instruction in political economy at the principal colleges of the country in 1860 and 1870 compared with that given in 1884 is found...