Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first comers the first chance, was tried and found to work satisfactory in the main. There were a few details, however, which seem to allow of improvement. The place of sale should be in some place where a line can easily be formed, and where no inconvenience will result from the crowd. Last year the sale of tickets took place in one of the rooms of Holworthy, and much trouble was caused by the lack of a suitable place for forming a line. The gentleman, too, occupying the room opposite that of the secretary of the association, although he very...
...might result, too, in affording an extra inducement to men to enter the games. At all events, the matter is worthy of consideration, and we commend it to the attention of the officers of the association...
...used unnecessarily expensive. It is painful to think of our text-book as a tax upon us for the benefit of a few American publishers, who would not publish such books under any circumstances, however high a duty is imposed. At present there is great doubts about the final result of the present agitation, but we hope, whatever may be the final action of Congress, that the duty on text-books and other books imported for educational purposes will be removed...
...Harvard Hall, till it was moved to the upper room in Harvard, which had been occupied by the library." On the fly-leaf is the following interesting note by John Langdon Sibley: "After Webster's execution, search was made for this book, with the hope that it might result in some pecuniary benefit to his family. After a long time it was found in a box with minerals. Friends of the family were consulted, and the writer was advised not to mention it, but to appropriate this book to his private use. It belonged to Prof. Webster." This...
...luxuries; carriages, for instance, it is curious to notice, bore a duty of thirty per cent., showing how these vehicles were then regarded by the people. The tariff of 1816 had little popular sentiment behind it, but after this time the tariff acts were in great part the result of popular movement...