Word: cheapness
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...Economist calls cutthroat competition. Surely, the American Romeo, who engages in this sort of financial competition with his rivals when the supply of Romeos is great and that of Juliets small, would prefer to hand over 25, 30, or even 50 dollars to the bride's father as a cheap...
...this advance will not reach its goal unless there is more money spent upon it than Harvard College now has to spend. Quantity production of college graduates is a fairly cheap proceeding. We have been turning them out in great numbers in this country. But to teach men as individuals costs money more money than America has been willing to pay. The question is whether the money will be forthcoming to support this improvement at Harvard and advances of a similar nature that are being tried at Swarthmore and Dartmouth. It will be interesting to see whether the country...
...sharp contrast to the poverty of the houses were the pitiful attempts to beautify them. Most of the rooms were very clean. Cretonnes, colored calendars and holy pictures abounded. Cheap ornaments were common. In one suite was found a canary bird; in others dogs, and pets of every description
Good books go through their grand editions only to end their existence on poor stalls in poorer covers. Good plays suffer a somewhat similar fate. They too have the grand vellum of Broadway about them for a time until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell...
...suddenly, clearly heard: "Mr. Watson, please come here. I want you." To this phrase there was no dignity as that attached to "What God hath wrought!" the first intelligible phrase carried over Samuel F. B. Morse's first telegraph. But the two young men were so jubilant in their cheap Boston lodging house that their landlady threatened to oust them. For money to install his new invention and to give it proper publicity Bell was obliged to go lecturing. In Manhattan he got Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them...