Word: walling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...allow the influences of the tariff to be felt, and it has made little difference what the height of the tariff so long as there has been free competition behind it. But that free competition has been destroyed, industries have combined, and are hiding comfortably behind the tariff wall. Prices have been regulated largely by domestic competition in this country, but since that competition has disappeared it is time to take steps to introduce other competition...
...victory over Pennsylvania had been greatly overestimated. Consequently when Sprackling was smothered and the Brown team over whelmed, 20 to 6, the pendulum swung too far the other way and Harvard was considerably overestimated Outsiders noticed only the wonderful all-round work of the ends, the stone-wall defence of the line, and the flash of offensive power which scored Harvard's first touchdown; they did not take into account the fact that several times Harvard held the ball near Brown's goal line and was unable to score...
This was evident in the Princeton game. The ends again played wonderfully; the line was a stone wall on the defence; but offensive drive was lacking. The forwards failed to open holes for the backfield, and Harvard lost. Of course the team was placed at a disadvantage by early injuries to Potter and Gardiner, and by the lack of a first-class punter, but even with these handicaps it would have won, had the offence had the power to make the last punch...
...Rostand's, is to the eye and to the sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits in the woods, the parade of cocks at the guinea hen's reception, the conference of the toads and the conspiracy...
...build either one of these approaches would require comparatively a small amount of wall construction, as at the beginning of the approaches they would be graded to meet existing park roads. Some rough wall probably would be necessary near the river, and the rest of the work would be filling...