Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Generally, in order to attract capital from men of wealth, who want sure, safe, investments, a new concern issues preferred stock. The condition attached to this stock is that a certain fixed dividend be paid on the preferred stock before the holders of common stock receive any advantage from the profit. Although the common stock is speculative in character it is frequently more remunerative than preferred stock as is seen at present in the case of the American Sugar Refining Company. The proportion of capital of the large combinations, which goes toward the cost of their promotion is an immense...
Although Jordan is technically on-campus, while Deadly is off, residents in both co-ops agree that there are not really many differences between the two--except for aesthetics. "I didn't want to live in the Jordan Co-ops because I don't like the architecture there," says Redoubt...
...supply a long felt want the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis originated in 1895 a plan of establishing a similar school in Palestine. Palestine was for centuries the thoroughfare between the far East and Europe, and buried in her soil therefore are undoubtedly inscriptions, monuments and relics which will throw immense light upon the literary, artistic and archaeological history of both East and West. The plan therefore has received the hearty approval of the American Oriental Society in a vote from which the following is an extract...
...citizen of a liberated state makes of his freedom is to give up some part of it for the common good. But the poor man knows he has less liberty than the rich man; till a man is independent he is not free. The man who is in want or in danger of want is not a free man, and the country which does not guard him against this danger is not a free country. How to secure every man in the means of livelihood is then the great problem to be solved...
...trifle south of Massachusetts avenue. No new centre out of the line of those already existing can possibly be established; and there should be no attempt to establish a new centre which would not certainly be frequented by both athletes and club-men. At the Harvard Union we want all Harvard men and want them often...