Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...salary for investment, the Corporation will add five per cent and put this sum out at compound interest, thus forming a kind of Savings Bank. Whenever an officer or instructor ceases to be such, he must, unless he has served the number of years requisite for retirement, withdraw his individual fund at the same time. And at the death of a fund-holder his accumulated share is to be paid to his family or other persons designated in his will. The Corporation, therefore, so far from depriving professors of a portion of their salaries, is in reality increasing them...
...style, said: 'You see, sir, it is a most unexampled case of profit and loss. If you win, you receive an H. A. A. cup! And when you lose all, you only lose a scent!' At this juncture the learned gentleman fell asleep, and your interviewer was obliged to withdraw...
...juncture the professor's fourth child, whose name we, unfortunately, have not room to print, began to bawl. The conversation was interrupted. The humane father proceeded to hang the child up by his cue to a peg on the Hospital's wall; and the reporter seized the opportunity to withdraw...
...becoming an Overseer. Furthermore, that since, of the thirty Overseers, some twenty live within sight of the State House in Boston, the obvious tendency of the Board in future is to the character of a close corporation, whereas it was clearly the design of the Act of 1865 to withdraw the College entirely from connection with the State and from local opinion...
...glimpse of interior apartments, where the moon-faced houris of the Dhin's household reside, and, Allah al Akbar! Mahomet himself has not many such. By this time the Dhin appeared, and threatened that my connection with the body of Mollahs should cease if I did not immediately withdraw, but Alla Pajama, - God is Great, and I will yet pollute the tombs of their forefathers. My tablet can contain no more, and I see, my Beeghaz, that you are drawing the lid of somnolency over the eye of weariness; my other experiences must wait. I kiss your feet and withdraw...