Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reducing expenses by 150 dollars a week. But if, after the stoppage of so serious a leakage, prices still remain high, there would seem to be a possibility that other leakages as yet undetected may still exist. If the board tell us that improvement is impossible, it is tantamount to saying that the Randall bequest was something of a white elephant, because many of us were better off at Foxcroft last year. Personally I have ceased to nurse the delusion that board can be obtained at Randall at a rate appreciably lower than elsewhere. Many men keep their bills down...