Word: sold
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...boats occupying rests which have not been paid for will be sold at auction on Saturday, May 3, at the boat-house. There will be five or six six-oared boats, and a large number of others, including single and double lapstreaks. The hour of the sale has been fixed...
...interest evinced in the Gray Heliotypes on their first appearance does not seem to decline. More than four thousand prints have been already sold by the Curator alone...
...highest excellence, and the better understanding of technicalities gives men of moderate ability many facilities for success. But art as an educator and an active power in the elevation and refinement of mankind no longer makes itself felt. Its best productions, instead of enriching the people at large, are sold to private individuals who can afford to pay the fancy prices asked, and are thus lost to the world. So it happens that men of the present day are as much indebted to the old masters as any before them; and were it not for the museums of Europe...
...just weak enough to be food for all these hungry visitors. Endowed with that thirst for knowledge so common here, he is always found in his room, and his generous heart compels him to cry "Come in" at every knock on his door. Many a time has he sold his best coat - for the wretches will hardly look at an old one - at about one nineteenth of its value, and then been wheedled into taking his pay in cheap vases simply to get rid of his tormentors...
...news to some to learn that Chas. S. Sargent, Professor of Horticulture in Bussey Institute, makes the highest-priced butter sold in the United States. Price $1.15 per pound the year round...