Word: kilter
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...specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through passengers extra fares on "limited" trains, made no such charge for way passengers on the same trains, thereby throwing out of kilter the delicately balanced passenger tariffs, violating...
...simultaneously. The deathrate was 12.8 per 1,000, an increase over 1921, when it was 12.1. The British deathrate is lower than that of any other major European country, and would be still lower if corrected for a normal age and sex distribution, which has been sadly out of kilter since...
...before she accepts Yale's challenge, and Yale wishes the challenge accepted and the matter arranged afterwards. Harvard has sent an 'ultimatum,' and the Sublime Port and Starboard committee of New Haven are deliberating their answer to it. Meanwhile trade is depressed, and the shares market is out of kilter. This tinkering with the boat race should stop, and the matter decided in one way or another, or a panic may ensue, deep-reaching and appalling...