Word: pawned
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Middle Ages there was no great system of property owning, whereby a man could borrow money on security, but rather a universal pawn-system, in which money was obtained by pawning farm products, etc. It was an essential for each small householder to keep a hoard of money to meet expenses, whereas, today, wealth may be obtained solely on credit. It is an interesting fact that we have but three times as much money in circulation, nowadays, as at the time of Louis XVI, while we are seven or eight times as rich...
Last Saturday afternoon several lockers in the Hemenway Gymnasium were pried open and money and watches taken. The matter was immediately reported to the police and one of the watches was found in a pawn shop in Boston later in the afternoon. Steps are being taken to apprehend the thieves...
Articles stolen recently from College rooms by W. H. H. Sullivan, the son of a tailor on Mt. Auburn street, who was arrested on Saturday night attempting to pawn stolen goods, have been brought to the Cambridge Police Station, Number 2, Central Square, where they may be identified by their owners any day between 7.45 and 9 o'clock in the morning, and from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The stolen articles consist of watches, scarf-pins and various kinds of wearing apparel...
...Perry '03(H); defeated A. Austell '02 L.S.(Y); Two Knights Defense. 2. C.T. Rice '01(H) vs J.F. Sawin "04(Y)--a draw; Vienna. 3. C.F.C. Arensberg '03(H) defeated E.B. Adams '01(Y); Queen's Pawn. 4. C.A. Roberts '02(Y) defeated A.J. Fotch '01(H); Ruy Lopez. 5. W.G. Clerk '01(H) defeated H.C. Russ '02(Y); French. 6. W. Catchings '01(H) defeated H.E. Colton '02(Y); Vienna. 7. E.W. Baker '04(H) vs. D.E. Brenig '01 S.(Y)--a draw; Scotch. 8. P.S. Estes '04(H) defeated C.A. Norton '02(Y); Evans Gambit Declined...