Word: controlling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...John Koren, in his lecture last night on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation," said that the trend of the wise liquor legislation of the future would be in the direction of local monopolies, established by local option, for the control of the liquor traffic under stringent restrictions and with practically no private profits...
...license system is also generally admitted to be a failure. It leaves the saloons under unrestricted private control, with the tremendous stimulation of private profits. Though the license system is as well developed as it can be, it has neither decreased the political power of the saloon nor lessened intemperance to any extent...
...hold the net, but they were continually forced into the back court by their opponents' superior volleying. In the second set they played from the back court, and won by their effective base line game. Their lobs and swift low ground strokes were well executed and hard to control at the net. They lost the match through their inability to reach the net, and their erratic work in the back-court...
...Trust, the essay summarizes thus: "Given the railway and economic conditions, the progress of the Standard Oil Company is quite inevitable, since it showed at an early time bright promise of industrial efficiency. It readily acquired, after the fashion of the period, proportionate discrimination in freight rates; by getting control through discriminations of the means of transportation, it inevitably achieved monopoly...
There is conflicting testimony as to whether the horses started suddenly from fright and the driver lost control of them, or whether he started them intentionally. Witnesses of the accident support both explanations. An inquest will be held today. President Eliot wishes all members of the University who saw the accident to call on him at University 5 this morning...