Word: risks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rules the committee's aim is to more nearly equalize the attacking and defensive powers. During the past season it developed that if a team could not gain its ten yards in two downs it preferred to trust to the individual ability of a punter, rather than to risk losing the ball entirely. The change which gives a team four downs to make ten yards is expected to strengthen the offense...
Providence, R. I., October 27, 1911.--The Brown football team held a final practice on Andrews Field this afternoon in preparation for the Harvard game. The coaches did not risk a scrimmage, but put the men through a careful individual drill, giving them special training in the fine points of both offensive and defensive playing. With the exception of Bean, a substitute halfback, the squad is in the best condition and the strongest possible team will be on the field when the game starts tomorrow...
...will enter the tubes at Cambridge common and Murray street respectively. Both tubes are so built that a platform two feet wide runs beside the tracks for the entire distance so that in case of accident or breakdown the passengers can walk to the nearest station without incurring any risk from electric wires...
...been done at any meet this year, by beating, in his Curtis biplane, one of the fastest Bleriot monoplanes, over the Boston Light course. Ovington took second place. A wind of 28 miles an hour was blowing, and on account of this Beachey was the only aviator willing to risk the flight to the Blue Hills observatory and back for the $1,000 prize. He encountered many difficulties on the trip but accomplished it safely in 20 minutes, 22 seconds...
...value of a public service utility should have little to do with the determination of rates, which should depend in the main on the value and character of the service rendered. It is further generally recognized that the rate received should be in fair proportion to the amount of risk involved. In every case it should be taken into consideration by legislatures and public service utility commissions that the rate of return on capital invested should be such as to encourage investment in public service utilities