Word: outlay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are certainly making demands on it without a full measure of reflection. For instance, in the $3,500,000 spent annually by the students, Yale is providing the city of New Haven with more than the total of the proposed taxes. Any reduction in the University's outlay necessitated by increased taxation would discourage further endowment and the enlargement of facilities, and might well lessen the amount of money spent in the city. In fine, the municipality would be dealing itself a telling blow. The proper solution undoubtedly lies in some such arrangement as that in Cambridge, where...
Until last week a music room the size of a cathedral, a pipe chamber big as a master's bedroom and an initial outlay ranging from $15,000 to $100,000 were requirements for owning a house organ. Wilmington's Pierre S. du Pont, Hollywood's Cecil B. De Mille, New York's Charles M. Schwab, 2,000 other rich Americans and a great number of cinemansions own organs. Instance of Depression's spur to invention, Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. demonstrated in Manhattan last week a new instrument, smaller, cheaper...
...schools in 41 cities of more than 100,000 population. In making comparisons between this year and last, it is found that figures from the densely populated North Atlantic States change the nationwide averages considerably. With these in parentheses. School Life finds total expenditures off 5.32% (12.24%); capital outlay off 37.98% (39.19%); teachers' salaries off 4.96% (14.62%); State appropriations up 3.13% (off 5.98%); assessed valuation off 7.50% (14.12%); enrolment up 1.39%, (1.63%); teaching staff...
Such incidents unfortunately do not occur every day, nor every week. I have been unusually fortunate in that I have had one perhaps every year which netted me a profit of four figures for a trifling outlay...
...work being done by students in the dining halls means the outlay of over $40,000 annually, while an additional $10,000 is paid for the service scholarships. This total of $50,000 is a larger sum than has ever before been apportioned among the working students at the School...