Word: frees
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...East Side House is at the foot of East 76th street, New York city. The building itself is a roomy old country mansion. It stands on a bluff extending from 75th to 76th streets and overlooks the East River. The house and grounds probably afford the largest free breathing space that there is anywhere in the east side tenement district. One could hardly find a more pleasant spot from which to study and work in the slums...
...harmful. - (a) They can never maintain abnormal prices. - (1) Competition, latent or active, is always a check. - (2) Too great increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...
...entries will be free but they must positively be made at Thurston's or at the house before May 20. Mr. Donovan will coach the candidates...
...exempts six hundred and taxes three hundred. One class divides its profits-in a particular way and is exempt. Second, between insurance companies. Of two insurance companies, one is a regular stock company and is taxed two per cent on net income; the other, a mutual company, goes free-Third, between kinds of income. This bill exempts general incomes of four thousand dollars, while corporations are taxed two per cent on net incomes without exemption. All corporate stock is widely distributed among persons whose income is less than $4,000. Thus a man with an income of $4,000 derived...
...river in a wherry, when the boat struck against the piles of the Boylston street bridge and stuck there. In trying to push off, the wherry was upset, and Ryder being unable to extricate his feet from the straps, was dragged under the boat. He at length managed to free himself and reach the surface, but not until he had almost lost consciousness, and was unable to swim ashore...