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...England. It has been sustained by members of the Interstate Commerce Commission with few exceptions. The "cut rates" on long hauls are the result of competition with water routes-ocean, lake or Panama Canal. A railroad gets business in the first instance for service which water routes cannot render (service of speed, service to interior localities), for which it charges presumably a fair rate. But the more business a railroad gets, the less its operating cost per ton per mile, the greater its profits. So, to swell the volume of its business, a railroad will take business at "cut rates...
...pride . . . that I welcome you to the city to which you have brought ... so much fame . . . and I only wish it were possible for you ... to stay with us always. . . ." Mary Lewis smiled. She was a woman of the world now. And yet-when Mary Lewis had tried to render "Home Sweet Home" at her concert, some of the song had seemed to cause her throat a strange contraction. Maybe it was the air, maybe it was the thought that she lived in Little Rock no longer, but right in the middle of that most optimistic of songs Mary Lewis...
...American law schools can render a real service, not merely to the profession, but to the economic and business interests of the country, and to every citizen by carrying on the scientific investigation on which the law reforms of the future must go forward...
...standard of entrance examinations. In this way the secondary schools would have to give many of the freshman courses which properly belong to them. But the danger of causing more cramming of formal facts or added emphasis on the mere technique of passing examinations is too great to render this solution entirely satisfactory...
...them together ? swart Walter Hagen and blond Amateur Champion Bobby Jones. No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot. It was also a great resort attraction. They had set aside two Sundays to render each other satisfaction. On the first, Hagen came off 8 up after 36 holes played at Sarasota. The second Sunday found them threading the lagoons and jungled ravines of the Pasadena course at St. Petersburg (Hagen's home links this winter). It was on the well-groomed Pasadena greens that...