Word: limited
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suggests that if each industry were controlled by a monopoly, great instability of value would result; not only on 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...
...order and times of events, with the handicap limit in each is given below...
...Board of Overseers also voted to concur with the Corporation in electing Edward Charles Jeffrey, A.B., Toronto 1888, Ph.D. Harvard, assistant professor of vegetable histology; in electing Professor Charles Gross a member of the Library Council; and in reappointing the following instructors without limit of time of service: Frank Russell '96 in anthropology, Irvah L. Winter '86 in elocution, and Julian L. Coolidge '95 in mathematics, the latter with leave of absence for two years...
Yale has one governing board known as the Corporation, consisting of the President and seventeen Fellows, including the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, who are Fellows ex officio. Of the other fifteen, six are elected by the graduates for terms of six years; nine hold office without limit of tenure, and vacancies in their number are filled by the Corporation...
...letter has been received by C. T. Rice, president of the Chess Club, from the secretary of the Cambridge University Chess Club, England, accepting the dates proposed for holding the international college chess match, April 25 and 26. The time limit has been agreed upon as 20 moves an hour. The American college team will play in the gymnasium of the Boston Athletic Association, and through the kindness of Mr. J. F. Cook, the B. A. A. will pay most of the expenses of the match. The cables used will be the Commercial and Postal cables combined...