Word: costly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...previously as opposed to college aviation because of its risks and expense, he explained last night that he believed that these two objections could be obviated. Plans are now under way to make it possible for the Harvard Aeronautical Society to have the use of a plane without great cost; and the adoption of stringent flying rules would do much to lessen the danger...
...industrial firms it will be invaluable as a source of quick information which may save them many months of arduous research by especially hired experts. With the aid of its well equipped laboratories, Technology will be able to furnish almost immediate information at a minimum cost. An analogy might be drawn between the consulting function of the Department of Agriculture and this new department. If brings the theoretical in close contract with the practical side of industry...
...Because of the high cost of living, there is a disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
That inventors should receive good rewards from their inventions cannot be denied, for without inventions modern business methods would never have been possible. But it is equally undeniable that the public has a right to share in the improvements. A diminishing cost of production must benefit the consumer. In order to safeguard him, the public must make itself heard above the wranglings of labor-capital disputes...
That hardy annual -- the Yale game number of the Lampoon--is with us again, we see. And at an increased cost per copy, too. You can't blame Lampy a bit for that, though. With Yale tickets themselves going from two to two and a-half, it seems as if thirty-five cents is a small jump from a quarter...