Word: access
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three salient features to the Colombian petroleum industry: first, the marked predominance, amounting almost to monopoly, of American capital in that field; secondly, the difficulty of access from the seaboard to the richer deposits, necessitating excessive costs of pipe line construction and drilling, which are nearly double those for corresponding work in this country and Mexico; thirdly, the legal status of the industry was radically changed in November and December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed...
...military duties, the university authorities were constrained to open the laboratories at night. Since the war, however, only in exceptional cases has this policy been continued. There seems to be no valid reason, except perhaps the expense, for not keeping laboratories, like libraries, open until ten o'clock. Having access to his desk in the evening, the budding scientist,--the would-be chemist in particular,--would be free in the afternoon to air his genius on the field of sport. In that this project would enable an ever-increasing group of students to enjoy their share in the advantages...
...these advanced days of democracy, the speaker continued, some people do not look at majorities as such, but at the means by which those majorities are created. Therefore there is positive work to be done in the organization of and the arrangement of access to that knowledge by which the opinion of majorities is formed. To this work of informing the citizen the liberal should largely devote himself, staking everything upon the as he can find it, and asking of the no reward in riches and fame. Happy is the nation", concluded Mr. Lippmann, where consecration like that...
...conduct of his life on his island, but also easily followed directions for regaining the outside world. There would be no more excuse for such a favored victim of shipwreck to remain alone on his island, than there is for a Freshman or an Unclassified student with access to the Register to fall to discover the manifold opportunity. Harvard holds not only for others but for him. To quote the book itself, "There is a whip in Harvard for every man's hobby", and in its pages it is made astonishingly clear that he who falls to win recognition...
...attention that the privileges of the Union Library and the Widener Library have, at times, been abused. Men have taken books from these libraries for the purpose of doing some special outside assigned or tutorial work, but instead of playing the game fairly and letting others have access to the book they were using, they have selfishly "hogged" that book for their own use, and in some cases forgotten to return it when they had finished. The spirit that prompted such action was nothing more nor less than selfishness and carelessness, but the result was the same...