Word: markets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Philadelphia has this year found hockey enthusiasts flocking to her, because of the erection of the mammoth Ice Palace now nearing completion at Forty-fifth and Market streets. Although operations were begun only on October 28, the steel work is up, parts of the roof have been put on, and the management hopes to be able to start skating on or about Christmas...
...universal acceptance since a hundren and twenty-five years ago. In countries and localities where it has been applied, "free trade in ideas" has usually resulted in the separation of the good from the bad, and "the power of though to get itself accepted in the competition of the market" has been proved. Governments have found that when attempt is made to clamp down the lid on things they dislike the result has been that the lid has not only been forced open but entirely blown...
...come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas--that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some...
...each width of letter. For example, an 'i' or an 'I' is allowed five units of space, while a 'w' or an 'm' is given eighteen units. As in the case of improved type, the new demand will undoubtedly bring a supply of differential feed typewriters on the market...
...bought for their "actual value," whatever that may mean. Labor, according to Mr. Plumb, would not accept the present capitalization of the roads as a true statement of their worth. But how would the true worth be estimated? The courts have ruled that "just compensation" means payment at market value; Mr. Plumb says it does not--a bold assertion, indeed. Endless confusion and too many chances for manipulation are involved in determining this issue...