Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game was Major Walter Wingfield, of Her Majesty's Body Guard, and he introduced it in 1874 under the name of "Spharistike." The first match ever played was in Denbighshire, England, and the first public contest took place in 1875. The game was popular from the start. The trade offered Major Wingfield a royalty of $1.25 a set on his invention, which would have yielded him by this time over $1,000,000. He declined the offer, however, and has never realized anything from the game except a gold watch and chain presented to him by public subscription. - News...
...phase in the opposition of Cambridge tradesmen to the Co-operative Society has of late begun to manifest itself offensively to such a degree that it deserves public notice. The prominent bookstore whose trade is most seriously affected by the Co-operative Society is not content to charge, as a counter irritant, exorbitant prices for all articles which are necessary to the student, but has now added to its system of trade a course of gross misrepresentation concerning the prices charged by the Co-operative Society. The whole attitude of such opposition to the society is rendered more irritating...
...thorough knowledge of human nature than during his college life. Business wants all the men it can get equipped in just this way. Special training is of course required after graduation, but the college man has acquired the ability to learn better and more quickly a particular branch of trade than a non-graduate, and is usually much more efficient after he has learned it. One trouble is, that in estimating college graduates, business men, as well as some others, are apt to pick out, as a standard, the few cheap characters which every college sends out, and which neither...
...eminent protectionist, Prof. Robert E. Thompson, of the University of Pennsylvania, has declined the invitation extended him by the New York Free Trade Club, to meet Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale, in debate...
Prot. Sumner will deliver a lecture before the New York Free Trade Club, Friday evening, on "The Effect of Protective Taxes on National Prosperity...