Word: happening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...industries in which monopoly conditions are found were these monopolies established without resort to predatory methods, which are contrary to the common law. It is often assumed that costs of production are lessened through the monopoly organization of industry. At the outset, it does often happen that savings are made in the expense of marketing and through the adoption in all plants of the best methods in use in the various plants included in the combination. But that progressive improvement will go on as rapidly as under competition is far from certain...
...strongest machines in years and aware of the fact that a victory over Yale will give it a clear title to the championship. The Yale authorities realize this and are putting unusual emphasis on the preparations for Princeton. Yet no matter how good or how bad Princeton elevens happen to be by hearsay, there is each year the usual high grade football to be seen at the Yale-Princeton game. So far fortune has favored the New Jersey team, against Harvard and especially against Dartmouth, where an acknowledged fluke gave Princeton the victory over what was seen...
...likely to go to Cornell or University of Pennsylvania. Cornell's main strength lies in the runs, but the team has also some good field event men. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania aggregation is a well-balanced one and will take many seconds and thirds. It will probably happen that one of the two will detract a sufficient number of points from the other so as to allow Yale to slip into second place. The University team will have Michigan to contend with for fourth place, with the odds in favor of the latter for the position. The actual...
...gives his word that he can comply with the rules of the boat clubs takes his life in his hands when he goes out on the river, but it is the duty of the University to make rules that will insure students against accidents that are bound to happen from time to time...
...familiar fact that in a great many courses too much stress is laid upon theoretical discussions and too little upon practical illustrations. Particularly is this true of courses in economics and related subjects. So often, indeed, is the student taught merely what should happen in a certain artificial set of circumstances that when he tries to fit the theories he has learned to the actual occurrences of the day, he is utterly unable to reconcile...