Word: rating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...expense of the subway will raise the rate of taxation in Boston. - (a) Final expense of subway not to be judged by present estimates. - (b) West End Railroad can not afford to pay rent sufficient to cover the interest. - (c) Balance must be paid by Boston taxpayers...
...Congress neglect it? Because popular clamor dinned its claims in one ear, while Congress turned the other to the gentle suggestions of the beer combine. The law is unjustifiable because of its radical defects. The special deductions allowed open wide the doors of evasion, and this and the high rate of exemption will largely destroy its value as a revenue measure...
...name) so preposterous, that it is easy to understand the infrequent representations of the piece. The reason for its being seldom given, however, lies more perhaps in the fact that, with the partial exception of Launce, who belongs of course to the low comedian, there is no first-rate character for any one player. Whatever the reason, it is certain that the first valid record of any performance of "The Two Gentlemen" comes so late as the year 1762. The first American rendering was given in New York by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in the year 1846. Forty years...
...really are. The games which the managers have arranged to be played in Cambridge give the opportunity to form some reasonable estimate of the worth of the sport. Students will find themselves amply repaid for attending the game this afternoon by the interest of the contest itself. At any rate a considerable attendance is due in acknowledgement of the efforts which the promoters of lacrosse have made, and still are making, in its behalf...
...hoped that more seniors will take advantage of the $3 rate and join at Thurston's or with the secretary...