Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business man, these oddities and quiddities of freight rates are no mystery. They have existed for nearly a century, and for half a century have been hotly debated. The principle of apparently illogical rates has been upheld by the Supreme Court. It is the rule in Canada, in 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...
With the approach of the Spring season, the organizations which have superimposed themselves apon track and field athletics have illustrated a new the incongruity of their connection with amateur sport. The other day, the Western Conference passed a rule forbidding students at any of the colleges under its jurisdiction to participate in meets held under A. A. U. auspices. Though apparently aimed at the bogie of professionalism, this decree was promulgated as a blow to the prestige of the Eastern clubs that comprise the national governing body...
...paid a visit. He had been in prison before when he was a boy of 22, for deserting from the Army. Since then he has won the Distinguished Service Medal and Croix de Guerre in France. He said to the warden: "I shall do my best to obey every rule of the institution, and I do not expect to be shown any favors over other prisoners. If I am assigned to shoveling coal, I shall not make the slightest complaint. I am willing to do anything you may require...
...Ground Rule. To prevent undignified extra-gridiron scrambling for stray balls, during which spectators and players have so often been injured, the Committee held that in future the playing area will be identical with the chalked gridiron itself. Once a fumbled ball crosses either sideline, it will be considered dead and shall belong to the team whose player last touched it within the area of play...
...There is a class of insects," he said, "which are parasitic upon other insects; a rather rare occurrence in the animal world, by the way. As a rule one group of animals is parasitic upon some totally different group, as for insects on mammals. In this case, however, a class of insects is parasitic upon another class of insects. The economic importance of this fact is well known. Where insects are introduced into a foreign country they often prove very destructive because there are usually in that country no parasites to prey on them. This, you know, was the case...