Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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Harvard defeated Brown on Saturday by a score of 11 to 6. The team played in poorer form than at any time this season, and by inexcusably frequent fumbling and carelessness almost lost the game. In the first half neither team scored, Brown losing the ball on Harvard's twenty...
Hon. Carroll D. Wright spoke last night on "The Course of Real Wages in the last Half-Century," a sequel to his lecture of the night before on the course of money wages during the same period. In the latter lecture he had shown the great rise in the wages...
The first part of this century was a period of marked decline in prices, as is shown by the tables of Parker and Levi in which the price of flour is shown to have been reduced in 1865 to one quarter of that of 1800. Giffen, in his table published...
The most complete tables for tracing the courses of prices are those of the London "Economist," Sauerbeck's Reports, and of the United States Senate. In all these tables index numbers are used to condense the results into a relative statement. The "Economist" makes use of the quotations on twenty...
The Aldrich Report of 1891 in the United States Senate and its sequel, the Report of the United States Bureau of Labor, are the only examples in the United States of the use of index numbers. In the former, which follows the trend of prices from 1841 to 1891, the...