Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...instantly jumped ahead for a few feet and then both crews settled down rowing 36 strokes to the minute. B. A. A., however, evidently had the best of it at this point for her superior watermanship told in the rough water, and there was a noticeable length and power in the middle of her stroke which the Harvard crew lacked. The crews remained in about the same position for the first three-quarters of a mile, B. A. A. leading by about half a length, but as they neared the Harvard Bridge both crews spurted magnificently but again...
...That the president have the power to appoint three members at large of the executive committee...
...Electric Light and Power Measurements," Assistant Professor W. L. Puffer, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in room 36, Rogers, beginning...
...been in consequence of the revolt of one railway or another against the rule of the combination: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 217.- (ii) Every restoration of pools has been accompanied by an advance in rates: ibid.- (e) Pooling does not prevent discrimination.- (i) The power of pools enables them to establish monopolies by discriminating against a whole industry, instance the Standard...
...Weak companies resort to wars to secure the privileges of combination.- (ii) Strong companies resort to war to prevent honest competition.- (d) Legalized pooling would be a special danger.- (i) The anomalous combination of corporations which could be brought together by legalized pooling would have more power over commerce than the Congress of the United States.- (ii) From this unrestrained control of business interests dangerous abuses would spring.- (e) It took a railroad pool to perpetrate the Standard Oil Monopoly.- (f) Why should not permanent pooling combinations maintain in the same way discrimination over any and every important industry...