Word: sold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serious is accounted for by the corruption of the Chinese officials themselves. Embezzlement and the misuse of public funds to the advantage of private affairs is a common practice, exercised with little or no check, while not infrequently officials have shamelessly accepted bribes in return for which they have sold the interests of their country. But', they continued, 'our troubles on this account, scandalous as they are, are greatly magnified when the money power of a foreign government or of some individual outsider is sent into the country to keep trouble brewing between the different factions in China...
Because of the large number of two-ticket applicants within the College, many graduates each year are restricted to a single seat. The injustice done to other Harvard men, when tickets are sold to speculators, must be obvious. There should be no need for a blacklist. A gentleman's agreement should be of sufficient force to keep all tickets within the University...
...rules against speculation in tickets will be enforced with the utmost strictness. Every applicant will be held personally responsible for the tickets allotted to him, and if these tickets are sold or offered for sale at a premium he will be blacklisted. The rules relating to speculation and to personal use of tickets are both equally necessary to secure a fair distribution among those applicants who wish personally to attend the game. Violations of either rule deprive other applicants of their rights, and should be and are liable to the same penalty...
...clock last evening 62 transportation tickets to Princeton had been sold. Men desiring to purchase tickets may still do so at Leavitt and Peirce's today on tomorrow until 4 o'clock. The rate for the ticket from Boston to Princeton is $7.26 each way, including war tax. State-rooms sell at either $1.62 or $2.16, depending on their size and location...
...degrees recognized by either the law of the nation or public opinion? Is a man at liberty to use solutions of Paris green, arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten...