Word: buying
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value. We ought not to run the risk of permanently impairing our credit merely for the sake of the senators who buy their seats with the silver they have made...
...clock yesterday. Tickets may be obtained at the B and A. R. R. station, or 232 Washington street today. After today only a limited number of tickets will be for sale so that those who have not obtained tickets by that time may be unable to buy them...
DEAR SIRS.- We trust that you may kindly grant us space to call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages...
...honor of its founder, has arrived and the books are now on the shelves in Sever 4. Dr. Francke while abroad this summer, kindly attended to the purchase of the books and invested but one third of the amount given to him. His object in doing this was to buy the standard works of German literature and on German literature from the 4th to the 19th century. Gradually the less important works will be bought and the gaps will be filled in, so that by the end of the year Dr. Francke expects the library will cover in a fair...
...with them, and which if sold, would bring nothing like their real value as measured by their capacity to do service in a student's room. A plan has been carefully arranged by which such articles can be loaned on proper terms to students who would otherwise have to buy. The plan is not a promiscuous charity, but simply a design for getting the greatest possible use out of furniture without allowing to a second-hand dealer a series of liberal commissions. The necessary expenses of life in college are nowadays so great that any means of reducing them...