Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appointment by the Legislature of the Charles River Legislation Commission, which, in conjunction with a committee appointed by the Metropolitan Park Commission and the Board of Health of Boston, recommended that a dam be built for the purpose of keeping the water of the river at a fixed level. The opposition was even stronger than in 1869 and this project also failed. In 1898 the Legislature passed an act authorizing the erection of a dam at a point near St. Mary's street, above Harvard Bridge, but as this was not considered a suitable place the authorities decided...
...Pritchett, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Col. S. M. Mansfield, of the United States Engineering Corps. The committee recommends that a dam be built near the present site of the Craigie bridge and that a fresh-water basin be maintained at a permanent level. The report is most thorough and exhaustive, and its preparation required an immense amount of work covering a period of about two years. The engineering problems connected with the project, while complicated, are entirely capable of solution. The chief reasons for the construction of the dam are the resulting sanitary betterment...
...play on college teams. In the first place, the four-year rule is just as strict for a graduate student as for an undergraduate, so the difference in experience is generally very slight. As far as professionalism is concerned. I cannot see why an older, more level-headed man, should try to evade these rules any more than a young student just out of preparatory school. I admit that men in graduate departments are usually older than men playing on college teams, but I consider this advantage a perfectly fair one, because college teams do not consider themselves...
...account of the "wars," perhaps interminable, between monopolists of rival commodities, but also because the monopolists of complementary commodities, acting independently of each other, might continue to vary prices without limit. There would be no economic equilibrium in such a regime. Prices would not even be seeking their level. A regime of monopoly is further contrasted with that of competition with respect to the incidence of taxation. There is some presumption that a tax on a manufactured article will bear on the consumer less severely when the manufacturer is a monopolist. The possibility of levying a tax on the foreigner...
...floor there will be two lecture rooms, with seating capacity for 100 and 220 students respectively. The floor below, which is on a level with the present reading room, will have besides book frames, a library room, cataloguing room and three professors' rooms. The first, second and third stories have been given up chiefly to the book stack, although there will be a large working room and five small rooms for professors on the third floor, and five professors' rooms on the second. A bindery will probably be put in the basement, together with part of the book stack...