Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobiles parked at the curb and returned to find them snow bound after the plows had raised mounds three feet high between the curb and the tracks. Later in the afternoon the surface car transportation practically ceased and Cambridge was isolated but for the Subway. Taxicabs were at a premium and one driver from the wheel of his much sought after conveyance was heard to remark to a group of petitioning fares on the curbstone, "Say, you couldn't get this cab for five dollars...
...When Rutgers decided to retain the mentally-wayward twelve, to nurture them in a class all their own, and to engage her leading professors to teach them economics, history, mathematics and geology, she was manifestly actuated by motives ulterior to one of commiseration, for colleges have never put a premium on failure...
...railways began at once to criticize this plan: The period for voluntary consolidations (three years) was too short; in effect compulsory consolidation was being applied at once; the provision that the successful roads should give their earnings over 6% to the unsuccessful roads was purely political, putting a premium upon inefficiency. As yet the argument has not entered into its more acute stages...
...that. Assuredly there is nothing either very vital or very comical about the methods which a Grand Opera star employs to regain her family. It is just pleasing fare, which you can go to and enjoy any old time. Unfortunately the talents of Miss Yurka are more at a premium...
...Harvard, but I believe that if some millionaire had put Abraham Lincoln in Yale or Harvard, he would never have been placed in Who's Who. The reason for this," he continued, "is that they are over-organized, over-standardized and over-specialized. They suppress genius and put a premium on mediocrity." The New Student