Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Martha, her mind tottering dangerously from the strain of waiting and longing, sets off to the South to hunt for the child through all the mills in the land. Henry, who owns one of these same mills, sends orders to push the profits as hard as possible to supply money for further search...
...piercing screams come from within, we learn that "Skinny" has been injured in the machinery. Martha takes him to his cabin and nurses him. From the lips of old Hinks she hears the story of how he took him from a dying man in a hospital who owed him money; and she knows that "Skinny" is her own child...
...larger part of the money for the erection of the building came from the sale of the Andover Theological Seminary's buildings and property at Andover, but several individual gifts were received, as, for example, the organ, and a large clock for the lounging room, presented by the trustees
...purpose, the payment of damages to any persons up river whose rights of access by water are injured by the drawless bridge, and for the determination of these damages by a commission, also providing for a bond issue of $50,000 to provide the Metropolitan Park Commission with money to buy land in Boston to connect lands on the river now in its control...
There are two plans under consideration by the Metropolitan Park Commission which will have charge of constructing the bridge, after the preliminaries incident to the approaches have been settled and the money has been formally donated. One plan is for a bridge at the minimum height of 12 feet above the basin water level. This would necessitate approaches on either side of from 170 to 200 feet and there would be no land damages to abutting owners on either side, for the reason that the land affected is owned by the state, and is mostly Metropolitan parkway. The University might...