Word: receipt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift son of Man o' War-or By Hisself, another son of that famed sire-were faster than Kentucky Cardinal, Marconi...
Last week, the University of Chicago acknowledged the receipt of a new medical research foundation. Some $800,000 in securities had already been turned over, with a promise of $200,000 more in short order, by one Mr. Douglas Smith of Chicago. Mr. Smith is not a doctor, nor is he an invalid to whom the advancement of medicine would have had a special and intimate interest. A hale, hearty, portly man, much given to golf, a familiar in North Shore society, Mr. Smith is by profession a promoter. Yet it was a most appropriate thing for Mr. Smith...
...With ten dollars in my pocket, with a change in the weather which permitted bicycle riding, and with the receipt of a check for evening school work, the financial burden of four years suddenly be- came light, and I was able to enter the activities of the last few months with perfect freedom...
...That the payment of $100,000 (made without security, carried in a black satchel instead of conveyed in the usual channels, concerning which no records were kept and having for receipt a note with its signature torn off) was "contra bonos mores," "a fraud upon the United States," "a colossal infamy regardless of whether it was a bribe, a gift or a loan...
...said Mr. Steed, "is Premier Stanley Baldwin and it is well known that he did impose a levy upon himself and that the Treasury acknowledged receipt of ?150,000 of the War loan for cancellation." His example, however, only inspired others to the amount of ?350,000, a total...