Word: plus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gilbreth is one of the few contractors who issue contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...number of men who have sent in their names on the reply postal cards to Captain Rand and as candidates for the University team, plus those who handed in their names at the meeting, is 270; for the Freshman team...
...requiring of each applicant for seats at the Yale game two cents extra postage on the enclosed envelope in which the tickets are sent out the week of the game. Whereas, by all good rules of mathematics and accounting the ordinary two cent postage required for a letter plus the registration fee of eight cents equals ten cents, the Association is charging its patrons twelve cents and stating that unless each envelope contains the required amount of stamps, no tickets will be sent out. In other words, it is overcharging each applicant two cents in postage, and the intimation seems...
...summaries follow, the method of scoring consisting of one point for each individual match, plus one-half point for each hole...
...things as a nation. We can rely on that distinctive characteristic of the American people, judicial will to work out justly and successfully the problems of the present and of the future. The Philippine Islands, which are ours; Hawai, which is ours; the Panama Canal, which will be ours; plus a merchant marine, which we must have, will enable us to send our matchless resources of farm and factory into every clime and into every port...