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Word: pocketbooks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times troubled by a lack of time and money. Many students are always ready to contribute to any worthy cause. More, however, find it easier to leave it to the family or to plead off because of lack of funds. The difficulty of reaching the undergraduate's pocketbook has become proverbial, and human nature has not changed. The demands of the present week, however, must necessarily pierce the armor-plate of every man's private exchequer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RED CROSS DRIVE | 5/20/1918 | See Source »

...become almost proverbial that the easiest way to reach the American is through his pocketbook. Europeans have portrayed us as a money-loving people; our citizen and the "Yankee dollar" have become inseparable in their minds. All this may have been true previous to the last year. At the end of the war, however, Europe will no doubt realize that money-desires were but a veneer upon the true American character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE | 3/14/1918 | See Source »

...immediately. At this time when rent and Bursar bills are stretching our credit to the limit, any extra payment is a difficult demand to make. Nevertheless, those who have pledged must remit immediately, or somebody else will have to make up the shortage out of his pocketbook. We have to send in to the Y. M. C. A. the amount we promised them,--we do not want to admit that the University is willing to pledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE PLEDGES | 2/13/1918 | See Source »

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