Word: account
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Courtenay has gained a high reputation among rowing men generally on account of his marked success in producing fast crews at Cornell. His strongest point, however seems to be not so much the coaching of individuals as the development of the crew as a whole...
...account of the darkness it was impossible to decide the pole vault, which will be jumped off Monday morning...
...competitors is small. The oppressiveness of monopoly seems to disappear when the system is supposed to become universal: those who suffer as consumers recouping themselves as producers. But theory suggests that if each industry were controlled by a monopoly, great instability of value would result; not only on account of the "wars," perhaps interminable, between monopolists of rival commodities, but also because the monopolists of complementary commodities, acting independently of each other, might continue to vary prices without limit. There would be no economic equilibrium in such a regime. Prices would not even be seeking their level. A regime...
...Golf Association, composed of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Columbia, will begin today at the Morris County Golf Club, Morristown, N. J. After the last tournament, held at Garden City in May, it was decided to hold the future tournaments in the fall instead of in the spring, on account of the better opportunities for practice obtained during the summer...
...challenge for a debate with Brown University has been received, but has been declined on account of the interference it would entail in the preparation for debates already scheduled...