Word: outlay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With a $13,000,000 initial outlay he rebuilt the road from the ground up, put down heavy rails, built new stations, bought comfortable coaches, created an esprit de corps among employes, nine out of ten of whom bought company stock. He reduced the traveling time between...
Despite numerous running expenses, despite the expense of such improvements as have been made on Soldiers Field, and despite the outlay of thousands of dollars in the construction of steel stands, the H. A. A. still rests with a surplus...
...farm families surveyed last year paid out an average of $104.94 each for doctors, nurses, hospital care, medicines, quackeries. With an average of 4.64 persons per family, the individual outlay was $22.62. New York City, as a community, last year spent 150 millions caring for the sick -on doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, drugs, quackeries. That was a per capita cost of $25. The people also lost an estimated 75 millions by absence from work on account of illness. Some 2,400,000 visited the 675 municipal and private clinics...
Even with such backing the enterprise was courageous. Today it is almost inconceivable that the college was started without endowment and that the resources of its backers were so slender. Tuition had to be $200 a year. $50 more than Harvard students paid, and representing a relatively much greater outlay today. Work was begun in four rented rooms in the house at 6 Appian Way. But thirtyeight Harvard instructors were eventually engaged to teach the twenty-seven young women who enrolled. The work was actually launched with the class of three in elementary Greek, taught by Le Baron Russell Briggs...
...prices of second hand text books never fail to produce a paradox in the mind of the average amateur trader. Somehow when he comes to sell his books in the Spring the return seems to bear little relation to the remarkable outlay required of him in September. The reason of course is clear enough, the cost of handling and storage are so great that in order to make a fair profit the dealers in such literature have to pocket about twenty percent of the list price...