Word: real
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Real wages are also higher in the United States-Consular Report 40, p 304, et seq; 42 pp. 12-14 and 15; 45 pp. 117-118. (a) Proven directly by the amount an American workman can save. (b) Proven indirectly by his higher standard of living...
...tariff increases the price of commodities, and thus puts them out of the reach of the poorer classes. Their real wages thus become less-Sumner, Protective Taxes and Wages...
...Ruland, '89 is in the real estate office of Ruland and Whiting, New York city...
...communications deserve especial attention, as they throw some light on Harvard athletics. The first maintains that "we are not inferior to Yale in athletics," but that study receives more attention here than at our rival college, and that therefore "the real cause of our lack of superiority in athletics (not our inferiority) is the greater earnestness and higher kind of work done here." The second takes a different ground and attributes our ill success to our social system. It argues that the athletics of the freshman class have their interests turned aside by their election to a sophomore society, "which...
...beauties of nature is perhaps the most marked feature of the book. As a drama it is not wholly successful, for though full of action and well sustained, it lacks plot and development of character. The historical incidents of the Siege of Syracuse are introduced, but have little real influence on the main theme, the love of Lucius and Adelia, As a poem the "The Siege of Syracuse" is far ahead of most initial publications. The first two love scenes between the hero and the heroine, and especially the fifth scene of the second act are among the most successful...