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|Text=<p>Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents."</p> | |Text=<p>Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents."</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>"School-House Sketches, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The United States Review</span>, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. | |Sources=<p>"School-House Sketches, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The United States Review</span>, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. </p> | ||
|Query=<p>Would it be helpful to find what time period the 1853 author chose for the setting for this piece?</p> | |Query=<p>Would it be helpful to find what time period the 1853 author chose for the setting for this piece?</p> | ||
|Submitted by=David Block | |Submitted by=David Block | ||
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If Balls and Bats Were Coinage, They Were Millionaires
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| Text | Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents." |
| Sources | "School-House Sketches, in The United States Review, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. |
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| Submitted by | David Block |
| Submission Note | email of 2/27/2008 |
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1853.8 If Balls and Bats Were Coinage, They Were Millionaires"
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