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Word: pecunia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1887 | See Source »

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