Word: pay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...since it does not provide for that large body of men who find it necessary to go outside to get the food suited to their desires. It is essential to keep the price of board as low as possible to suit the means of those who cannot afford to pay a high price; this fact all must recognize; but is it necessary in so doing to drive out the large class of men who want and must have better board than is furnished at Memorial? Have such men no rights to be considered? Have they no claims worthy of recognition...
...required, and the crew being kept in training for two races - have left us a debt of about twenty-six hundred dollars. Thirty-five hundred has been this year subscribed. Of this, all that has been yet paid in has gone, with one hundred dollars from other sources, to pay off the debt, which has been thereby reduced to about one thousand dollars, - an amount still sufficient to swallow up nearly all that is likely, as experience has shown, to be collected from the subscription-list. The crew will thus be, in a great measure, dependent, for the expenses...
...from that which happens to be popular, let me do it now. You will at once be set down for either a bore or a fool, and you will find neither reputation to your advantage. You need not think with the rest of the world, but it does not pay to tell them that...
...some talkative old specialist. If you want to know something about a legal point, you had better ask a question or two, and start off an amiable lawyer on his profession. If you want some information about art, do the same with an artist. And in general, it will pay to get out of your fellow-beings all the information that they will give you. If you can make other people do your reading for you it will save your eyes, and a good deal of trouble besides...
...Street, where the ground was found in capital condition for this exercise. Distance two miles. The men got better together in their pull, but the time was still poor. The stroke was livelier, as the pressure had been taken off the "Hydraulics." It is evident that the men must pay strict attention to the "coaching...