Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...productions. Where are the works of Chaldean, of Persian and of Egyptian wisdom? Ages have revolved since their utter perdition, and if in the sack of Alexandria it was their office to heat the baths of the Saracens, we may be contented to cumber the shelves of the book-seller...
...with an allowance for a very respectable profit). about ten, fifteen, or even twenty-five cents, expand in value, or rather in price, to fifty cents, seventy-five cents, and upward. Of course the only cause of this expansion is a very natural one, namely, the heat of the seller's eagerness after the almighty dollar. Heat expands, and cold contracts; so we learned in freshman Physics. In what way are we to send a good cold draught across these now red hot prices? The question is a difficult one to answer. A few years ago the Co-operative Society...
...Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University for the Academical Year 1855-56" reveals some interesting contrasts between Harvard College just before the war and the Harvard College of today. The catalogue is printed by John Bartlett, "book-seller to the university," and in outward appearance is somewhat similar to the catalogues of today...
Liquor is what makes all the "potenteries;" a rum-seller can never be a happy man. John don't drink, and he says he's respected by all the students. He is now 48, and he "may live a dozen years yet." When he dies, he is "going home...
Great surprise was occasioned by the announcement that a certain prominent book-seller of Cambridge, frightened at the brilliant prospects of the Co-operative Association, has betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money...