Word: costs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When it was suggested to him that the advocate of the Harvard-Columbia-Yale air-races had maintained that the expenses would not be greater than the sums spent for football each year, Mr. Cabot replied: "Yes, but football gives satisfaction to thousands of people, and much of its cost is paid by gate receipts. Aviation brings satisfaction only to a few, and you can't sell tickets for an air-race...
...reminded that the fare to Princeton is $7.26 each way, including war tax, and that staterooms may be had for $1.62 or $2.16. There is reserved for members of the University the entire forward men's cabin, where sleeping accommodations may be had at no additional cost...
Germany is not yet dead, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better. By just such tactics, by playing on the sympathy of "soft" American hearts will she, unless sternly checked, win back little by little that power which cost so many lives. Only a few weeks ago. It was reported that Von Hindenburg addressed a tremendous gathering on the necessity of concentrating attention on the next "test of strength." While the rest of the world is playing and striking, Germany is working and whining her way into power--a dangerous omen for the future...
...class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity of production and our heavy shipments to Europe are the underlying causes of the present high cost of living. For the strikers to decrease production still further is doing nothing but taking their newly acquired money from their own pockets...
...Babe" Brown of Annapolis fame, who in 1908 cost the Army team a defeat by his kick from the 45-yard line, heads the list. Others are Archie Craig, also of Annapolis, and Arnold of Worcester Polytechnic Institute...