Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...persisting in his steady opposition to the extravagant pension grants of our national Congress. We are liberal enough with our pensions already. Had the Dependent Pension bill become a law, it would have taken at least $50,000,000 out of the national treasury, and increased our total pension list to over one hundred millions. We should have been taxed as heavily for this purpose as are many of the countries of Europe which have to support large standing armies. Many of our most prominent military men have declared their approval of Mr. Cleveland's cause in vetoing this measure...
...bastard arithmetic which fails to perform the true function of that study in our public schools - namely, to produce accuracy and a reasonable degree of facility in numerical operations, while wasting the time of the pupils, perplexing their minds, worrying their tempers, rasping their nerves, and, in case of total or partial failure, unnecessarily and unrighteously shocking and impairing their self-respect and scholarly ambition...
...total number of students in the University of Pennsylvania is one thousand and eighty-eight. The total number of professors and instructors is one hundred and thirty...
...total number of students in the University of Pennsylvania...
...schools throughout the United States are teaching total abstinence under penalty of losing their subsidies from the State governments. The lecturer brought this fact out as more noteworthy, because of the well-known corruption of our legislatures, which he considered at some length...