The Current Encyclopedia: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, Volume 2Modern Research Society, 1902 |
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Page 816
... interest , bringing these subjects quite up to the present time . ****** We give it our cordial endorsement . - THE NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER , " July 27th , 1901 . " We are in receipt of the first number of a work that promises to ...
... interest , bringing these subjects quite up to the present time . ****** We give it our cordial endorsement . - THE NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER , " July 27th , 1901 . " We are in receipt of the first number of a work that promises to ...
Page 819
... interest has been at- tracted to the development of the rival metal aluminum . The remarkable lightness of aluminum and its prevalence in nature have , since its discovery in 1827 , been effective in impelling chemists to devise methods ...
... interest has been at- tracted to the development of the rival metal aluminum . The remarkable lightness of aluminum and its prevalence in nature have , since its discovery in 1827 , been effective in impelling chemists to devise methods ...
Page 828
... interest and railroad guaranties have risen from £ 3,066,000 to £ 3,357,000 ( $ 14,920,689 to $ 16,336,841 ) ; importations have fallen off heavily ; internal taxes have been increased ; the rise of the sterling value of the milreis has ...
... interest and railroad guaranties have risen from £ 3,066,000 to £ 3,357,000 ( $ 14,920,689 to $ 16,336,841 ) ; importations have fallen off heavily ; internal taxes have been increased ; the rise of the sterling value of the milreis has ...
Page 831
... interest on the debt , and where at the very same time the economic condition is very unsatisfac- tory . We have touched upon most of the causes of the unsatisfactory economic con- dition . But there is one other very im- portant cause ...
... interest on the debt , and where at the very same time the economic condition is very unsatisfac- tory . We have touched upon most of the causes of the unsatisfactory economic con- dition . But there is one other very im- portant cause ...
Page 832
... interest on external loans ( amounting to $ 9,260 , - 950 ) , whereas , in 1898 , with the exchange at 6d . , to meet the same payment ( which then amounted to $ 7,538,209 ) , a sum of nearly 62,000 contos ( $ 33,852,000 face value ) ...
... interest on external loans ( amounting to $ 9,260 , - 950 ) , whereas , in 1898 , with the exchange at 6d . , to meet the same payment ( which then amounted to $ 7,538,209 ) , a sum of nearly 62,000 contos ( $ 33,852,000 face value ) ...
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Page 1093 - States as a holiday or as a day of public fasting or thanksgiving; (15) a person shall be deemed insolvent within the provisions of this act whenever the aggregate of his property, exclusive of any property which he may have conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay his creditors, shall not, at a fair valuation, be sufficient in amount to pay his debts...
Page 1119 - Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a ^particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be imprisoned not more than seven years, and fined not more than one thousand dollars.
Page 868 - It is no limitation upon property rights or freedom of contract to require that when men receive from Government the privilege of doing business under corporate form, which frees them from individual responsibility, and enables them to call into their enterprises the capital of the public, they shall do so upon absolutely truthful representations as to the value of the property in which the capital is to be invested.
Page 1253 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 972 - ... 5. To enable such students as may find Washington the best point for their special studies to enjoy the advantages of the museums, libraries, laboratories, observatory, meteorological, piscicultural, and forestry schools, and kindred institutions of the several departments of the Government. 6. To ensure the prompt publication and distribution of the results of scientific investigation, a field considered highly important.
Page 1094 - A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has, within four months before the filing of the petition, or after the filing of the petition and before the adjudication, procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such...
Page 1007 - Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. Given to strong delusion, wholly believing a lie, Ye saw that the land lay fenceless, and ye let the months go by Waiting some easy wonder, hoping some saving sign Idle - openly idle - in the lee of the forespent Line.
Page 1017 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
Page 842 - That there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all articles coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands the rates of duty which are required to be levied, collected, and paid upon like articles imported from foreign countries...
Page 842 - That no goods, wares, or merchandise shall be imported, under penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another port of the United States...