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hard money
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hard money as in:  hard money contribution

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  • It was supposed that Lorenzo Daza was a man of means, because he lived well with no known employment and had paid hard cash for the Park of the Evangels house, whose restoration must have cost him at least twice the purchase price of two hundred gold pesos.†  (source)
  • He pays hard cash.†  (source)
  • Indeed, there was nearly everything that was needed but beef, gunpowder, and hard money.†  (source)
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  • The only solution in matters like these is cold, hard cash.†  (source)
  • In the words of one of his opponents, it meant "political death to any man to even whisper a breath against 'old Bullion" (the nickname derived from Benton's fight for hard money).†  (source)
  • The suites catered to the yuppie set and were a big source of profits for the hospital, bringing in hard cash from couples with money to blow above the standard insurance allotment for deliveries.†  (source)
  • But when I say a thing I mean it; and when I feel a sentiment I feel it in earnest; and what I value I pay hard money for.†  (source)
  • You know, Conway, this place isn't run without plenty of hard cash.†  (source)
  • These she could sell for hard money or use for barter.†  (source)
  • For don't forget, gentlemen, and this is my last message to you, the man worth while is not merely the man who takes things with a smile but also the man who's trained in philosophy, PRACTICAL philosophy, so that instead of day-dreaming and spending all his time talking about 'ethics,' splendid though they are, and 'charity,' glorious virtue though that be, yet he never forgets that unfortunately the world judges a man by the amount of good hard cash he can lay away.†  (source)
  • Although the Democratic party since the days of Jackson and Benton had been the party of hard money, it rushed to exploit this new and popular issue—and it was naturally assumed that the freshman Democratic Senator from poverty-stricken Mississippi would enthusiastically join the fight.†  (source)
  • Fyodor Pavlovitch, for instance, began with next to nothing; his estate was of the smallest; he ran to dine at other men's tables, and fastened on them as a toady, yet at his death it appeared that he had a hundred thousand roubles in hard cash.†  (source)
  • For every full-fledged deserter there were a half-dozen others inclined to stroll off on almost any pretext, to do a little clam digging perhaps, or who might vanish for several weeks to see wives and children, help with the harvest at home, or ply their trades for some much-needed "hard money."†  (source)
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