Word: paid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...goes back to the foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains...
...this, however, contributes little towards understanding the nature and uses of money; still less towards comprehending the relations between gold and silver in the performance of that function. Until more is known about the cave of Machpelah than history has banded down, the statement that Abraham paid four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...
State Treasurer Hodge of Connecticut on Tuesday paid to Louis Bristol of New Haven, for Yale University, $154,604.45, the amount of the recent award to Yale by the state Yale-Storrs commission; the injunction in the United States Circuit Court restricting the state treasurer from paying any of the money to Yale College being dissolved...
Finally, only a few days ago, about fifty members of the Engineers' Club of Boston were entertained by President Eliot at his house, and were conducted about the school. They paid particular attention to the mechanical and electrical departments, and freely suggested improvements...
...hall, which was erected as a memorial to a student who died during his college course, has been so far, and promises to be in the future, self-supporting. The plan by which the privileges are paid for is this: The annual fee is one dollar only. Tickets of the value of three cents are on sale at the office of the secretary and are sold in any quantity. None but members can purchase tickets. These are given up to the attendants in charge of the various departments whenever use is made of the latter. The aim is to have...