Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...essay must not exceed twenty-five thousand (25,000) words, and must be in the hands of Mr. Richard T. Eley, secretary of the American Economic Association, Baltimore, Maryland, not later than December 1, 1890. Each paper must be type written, signed by a ficticious name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name assumed as well as the address of the writer...
...this, though conducted in a most economical plan, will cost upwards of two thousand dollars...
...home to Spain. When they got to Scotland the English stopped their harassing warrare and returned home. Thus during the rest of the vovage the Spaniards had to contend against the elements alone; but these were as destructive as the enemy, for only fifty ships and ten thousand men returned to Spain...
...Pastora E. Humphrey of Newport, R. I. has left a bequest of ten thousand dollars to Harvard college to found the Henry E. Humphrey fund for the benefit, first of students who may come from Thomastown, Me., and in case no such students apply, then to the general benefit of others...
...North Sea Watch is strikingly picturesque. A thousand spiritual expressions of shore, sea and sky enter it as well as the cry of human sorrow. It might have been written by a landscape painter, had any such the refined sentiment and deep feeling united with musical expression that Mr. Woodberry has. The North Shore Watch is a threnody for the young friend who died in '78, to whom the book is dedicated. All through the lament the final alexandrines surge and moan like the rhythmic ninth wave that beats upon every shore...