Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...fine line of portieres are shown at remarkably low prices. Some German art pictures framed in gilt, 20x15, are but $1.50, at Power's, 30 Boylston street...
...extravagance. Each association receives subscriptions and makes expenditures independent of the others and has a separate set of officers. This is of course necessary, but, if a committee or advisory board of men unconnected with any team, whose supervision should extend over all the associations and should have the power to remove any officer who should be found incompetent for his position, the result would doubtless be advantageous to all interests concerned. As I understand it, the foot-ball and base ball associations are at present not only self-supporting, but even have a surplus in the treasury, while...
...source of business profits is in the intellectual abilities of each business man himself, that the more successful any man may be in business schemes and in business transactions, the larger will his profits be. Mr. Walker makes profits analogous to rent. Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained with the same amount of capital...
Finally in 1716 after much dispute and hesitation, letters patent were granted him and from that time the Banque Generale, or as it was later called, the Banque Royal kept continually increasing in power. And all this was due to one man's exertions...