Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...examining this subject, I have tried to find out what is the average amount men pay for their board, and how this price compares with the charges at the training table. From all I can gather, very few men pay more than $7 a week for board, and the average man pays approximately $5. Granted that a man in active competition requires more nourishing food than the inactive man, one concludes that training-table board should be offered for $8 or possibly $9 a week, allowing for a reasonable margin...
...spirit of the training table today is to have the best at any cost. On this supposition we find broiled capons on the menu rather than beef and lamb, which medical authorities consider unquestionably to be more nutritious; and strawberries, asparagus or grape fruit at the very season when these only moderately nourishing delicacies are most expensive...
...find that a certain instinct of the laws of possession pervades and governs the actions of animals of the higher types. By their mating, all animals tend to monogamy, which is reached to the highest degree in foxes and geese...
...commandment concerning keeping the Sabbath day has less exemplification than any of the other commandments, although even here, we find that all animals have a certain period of rest during the year...
...first states that, although inequalities in ability exist and give rise to inventions, these should be common property, and not exclusively a source of wealth to the few who happen to find them. Mr. Mallock showed that such intricate inventions as are frequent nowadays would be of no use to men of limited capacity, as they could not understand their uses. Only minds fitted by education can profit by extensive discoveries...