Word: loses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...occupies over sixty pages; that it discriminates between certain industries Several arguments are given why we should have Protection: That it affords an easy way of collecting revenue. Although this is true to a certain extent, yet if we should become engaged in a foreign war we would lose our foreign trade and therefore our revenue also. Second, that this tax is paid by foreigners. Not so; it is paid by the consumer at home. Third, that it benefits the farmer. Now the duty amounts to a virtual bounty, and this bounty is paid in part by farmers...
...built last year there was a similar cross bracing tried, but it was made of steel strips laid across the seat bracers from one outrigger to the other. Since it is not so much tenacity that is needed but firmness, Mr. Davy thinks he will gain in lightness and lose nothing in utility by using wood instead of steel. The idea of this cross-bracing is simply this: a shell being made so extremely light it must depend mainly for its strength on the even balance of the strains to which it is subjected. The problem of making a sculling...
Ninety-one got one-quarter of an inch on the drop, but '93 got it back before one minute was over. '93 then gained a little only to lose it again. At the end of four minutes '91 had one-quarter of an inch, but a few seconds before time was up, the freshmen heaved and made the event...
...second chapters of St. Paul. Here is represented a well rounded character, sober, righteous and godly. Can such a character be made to barmonize with the present age? There are two ways in which a man can meet the corruption of the outside world. He can surrender and lose his strength of character, or he can flee from the times and become a recluse. Men who flee from the struggle in this way should certainly be respected as martyrs. But they have left the world behind them and with it all chauce of doing good. One should throw himself thoroughly...
Under the system now prevailing, a railroad which fails to pay interest on its bonded debf is liable to sale under the hammer; and as the price obtained under such circumstances is rarely enough to satisfy the bonds, this means that the stockholders of capital stock lose everything. The fortunes made not by "railroad wrecking" but by such men as Jay Gould show to what enormous abuses and injustice this procedure leads. Efforts are being made to find a remedy. Mr. Abbot's lecture on this subject will be interesting and ought to attract a large audience...