Word: owners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Finally the landowners found this system very disadvantageous, for the landlord's share continually increased while the owner's decreased. The land was hired out to intermediaries, who exacted heavy rent, thus forcing it to support three masters. This led to a constant abandoning and recolonization, so that land, good for cultivation, became a luxury, and since the sixteenth century, intensive cultivation has been going on rapidly...
...else as a master--and this is what it means if you do not do your own part in the government. Like most other things of value, education is good only in so far as it is used aright, and if it is misused or if it causes the owner to be so puffed up with pride as to make him misestimate the relative values of things it becomes a harm and not a benefit. There are a few things less desirable than the arid cultivation, the learning and refinement which lead merely to that intellectual conceit which makes...
...wrestled with the powers of darkness and at last the law forbids the building of a tenement with a dark and airless room in it. The day is coming when it will forbid a man to own one. Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying to make it unprofitable to the owner...
...permit me to call attention in your columns to the carelessness of some students in not returning the property of others which comes by chance into their possession? The loss of what may seem to them a thing of little consequence may often mean great inconvenience to the owner, entirely incommensurate with the apparent material value of the article, or with the slight trouble of restoring...
Besides the regular tickets at $6, which entitle the owner to two seats at each concert, reserved seas at $1 each are on sale at Sever's, and a limited number of single seats will be sold at the door before the performances...