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Word: prizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will receive careful attention at the warerooms of the new firm of The Alexander Co., 26 West street, Boston, and will find there all the latest novelties in gold and silver, and a selected stock of diamonds, watches, ivory and leather goods, and umbrellas. Special attention given to prize cups and medals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 11/6/1889 | See Source »

...first editorial relates, as the writer says, to the well worn subject of giving cups as prizes in athletic competitions. Prizes naturally lose a good deal of their value if distributed a year or even six months after they have been won, and the principles put forward by the Advocate, that the prizes should be bought before the event, so that every competitor will know that after the event the winner will receive his prize, is an excellent remedy for the evil complained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate. | 11/5/1889 | See Source »

...pass over the contemptible way in which the writer of this pamphlet compares the political opinions of President Eliot to those of a well-known prize-fighter; but I wish to emphasize the meanness of trying to influence the vote of whatever voters there may be among the students here, by a dastardly attack upon a president of whom we all, whatever our political opinions, are justly proud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 11/5/1889 | See Source »

...will receive careful attention at the warerooms of the new firm of the Alexander Co., 26 West street, Boston, and will find there all the latest novelties in gold and silver, and a selected stock of diamonds, watches, ivory and leather goods, and umbrellas. Special attention given to prize cups and medals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 11/5/1889 | See Source »

...will receive careful attention at the warerooms of the new firm of The Alexander Co., 26 West street, Boston, and will find there all the latest novelties in gold and silver, and a selected stock of diamonds, watches, ivory and leather goods, and umbrellas. Special attention given to prize cups and medals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 11/4/1889 | See Source »

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