Word: cheapness
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Some of Hollings and Co.'s fine lamps are kept in stock at considerably reduced prices. also the "student" lamp. No cheap single wick burners are kept, all being either duplex or circular...
...Cercle Francais has begun the second term of its existence in a most flourishing condition. It has cabled to Paris for a French copy of "Sarah Barnum," and until its arrival will continue to read "File No. 113," there being "translations of that work in a cheap edition." [Argo...
...earlier books, but from "Coningsby" downward the gains were considerable, and he must have cleared at least L30,000 by his writings. It is probable that "Endymion" will be remembered as the latest novel for which many thousands have been paid down, as the new practice of issuing cheap editions after the first flush, in order to stop the sale of the second-hand copies which are flung upon the market by the large circulating libraries, has a decidedly cheapening tendency...
...perhaps from a practical standpoint this custom is really objectionable. Formerly, when the entire college furniture was cheap and rough, this carving was a very different matter than it has become now when our buildings are fitted up in a comparatively handsome manner. Even the most partial would freely admit that the great majority of the names which are thus carved are not famous and probably never will be, while in waiting for the one famous man to arise from the ninety and nine common-place, a room is greatly disfigured by this indiscriminate cutting. It is hardly presumable that...
...peculiarity, at least to Americans, is the supreme control a man's tutor had over him. He bought his clothes, gave him his very scanty allowance of pocket money, and attended to all his financial transactions, as well as to his moral training. Life at a university was exceedingly cheap. We instance a nobleman's son whose yearly allowance was forty pounds, this being expected to cover everything. There was indeed little chance to spend money, for the statutes of the college even went so far as to expressly forbid such extravagance as hunting or the wearing of "great muffs...