Word: stock
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...packers since the century began. Now, Buckeye, with his wealth and connections, might have taken a first place in the social world at Neophogen, and afterwards in the great world. But the foolish fellow threw away his chances. To use rather a vulgar phrase, he never took account of stock; and, when he might have had the best, he was quite as likely, through sheer ignorance, to choose the worst. Who were his friends? Before he had been two months at Neophogen he was inseparable, not with Buoy, in whom you or I would never have failed to recognize...
...regular board; for each man would pay the regular price beside paying for such extras as he might order; but those who took extras would naturally not consume the regular fare, although they pay for it; therefore all the non-consumption would go to the credit of the general stock and thus decrease the general expense...
...debt unpaid is stock in trade...
...necessarily the result of neglect of work, but of the positive inability of many to master or appreciate the study of mathematics; and students who cannot solve knotty problems themselves are obliged to hire tutors to do it for them; thus the training of the mind, the stock argument in favor of mathematics, becomes applicable to the tutor who does the work, but has no effect upon the student for whom it is intended...
...transfer members from one club to the other would not radically improve the condition of the clubs as a whole. This should certainly be done, but the reform should be carried further. The boats, with the possible exception of the sixes and fours, should be thrown into one common stock; the four separate organizations should be fused into one, and the absurd restriction should be removed which prevents a member of Matthews from rowing in a double scull with a friend from Weld. For all purposes of emulation, the clubs would then be the same as before; each club would...