Word: planning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subscribers any inconvenience, and it will greatly simplify the somewhat complicated state of our books. The paper has been in existence, now, for three and a half years, and during that time we have lost something like two hundred dollars on subscribers' bills. It is plain that had the plan which we intend now to inaugurate been put into operation when the first number of the paper was published and been strictly adhered to afterwards, this sum would now stand upon our account as profit, instead of loss. For this and other obvious reasons, we have decided, upon conference with...
...very practicable at present; and I have in mind a much less troublesome system of getting rid of disagreeable people, which I am not rich enough to put into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to do so. The plan is very simple. All you need is a large house, a steep staircase, and a pair of hobnailed shoes. The house is a sort of decoy. You invite the man that you don't like to dine with you, or inveigle him into your power in some other way. When he comes...
Some tender-hearted people may object to this plan that it is treacherous; that it takes the man at a disadvantage; that it is hardly honorable. I thought so myself at first, but I convinced myself of the contrary by three cogent arguments...
...Only one man urges on this hateful plan, and he soon comes here alone, and the old well is very deep...
...oared race, although there were two stake-boats. In the four-oared race the rowing was only tolerable. The fact is that the whole system of conducting scratch-races is bad, and we can never hope for anything better until it is changed. The crews, by some plan or other, ought to be chosen at least a week before the race. Even if the regular club crews entered, it would seem desirable, although it has been objected that then all interest would be centred in the scratch and not in the spring races. Having got the crews together, the race...