Word: 1880s
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Administration officials concede that not all of their proposals will be adopted. But they are confident that chances for change in the nation's creaky transportation regulatory system, whose underpinnings go back to the 1880s, when the ICC was established, are better than 50%. One possible benefit: increased competition among common carriers could encourage some companies, like large retailers, to cut costs by getting out of the trucking business. These companies have established their own truck fleets, not because it is efficient, but because they felt it was the only way they could cope with the maze...
Throughout the first century of Harvard-Yale football contests action has often exceeded the bounds of fair and friendly competition. Increasing violence during the early 1880s compelled the Harvard faculty in 1885 to abolish Ivy League competition. Harvard was still allowed to play non-Ivy League schools, but most players felt, as an Advocate editorial read, that "The game would not be worth the candle. No strong interest can be aroused among the students at large until we are allowed to play Yale and Princeton." In the summer of 1886 the faculty agreed to allow the team to schedule...
Japanese began arriving in Hawaii in the 1880s, when white plantation owners started importing them as farmhands. Even in the 1920s, Royal Mead, a spokesman for sugar planters, told a congressional committee: "The white people, the Americans in Hawaii, are going to dominate and will continue to dominate-there's no question about it." But the Caucasian elite did not figure on the dedication of members of the issei (immigrant) generation to the social mobility of their offspring. Though often illiterate, they hammered home the value of education. "When I was still a kid," recalls Governor Ariyoshi, "I told...
Something must be done to make this university administration as well as students aware of the fact that Radcliffe has not been the "Harvard Annex" since the late 1880s. The disregard, disrespect, and offhandedness which anyone living at Radcliffe experiences each day is enough to make any rational individual very irrational very quickly. The prevailing attitude about Radcliffe and its residents may not at first be apparent to the untrained eye or ear, but the tone of it has already become unbearable in the opening weeks of this semester...
Even in painting, the traditional assurance was flickering out by the 1880s. One scroll by Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958), of a cataract thundering vertically into a gorge, has a real sense of sublimity-a white blade of water dividing the black walls of rock. But in general it is clear that in the expressive Chinese phrase, the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn from most traditional-style Japanese painting by the turn of the century. No matter; the viewer goes to this show for its older works, and they are superb...