Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relating to the distribution of tickets, men sometimes allow them to slip out of their hands, thinking that all responsibility on their part thereby ends. Such men should not be greatly surprised to find their names appear on the black-list, for if the Athletic Association's efforts to destroy all speculation are to be in any way successful, it is quite evident that pleas of misunderstanding and ignorance can be of no avail. Therefore it should be understood that the man who receives tickets for the big games is held responsible for them and that excuses of lack...
...make a reduction. In the question of what constituted reasonable rates in accordance with the value and service of the properties, the courts maintained that the state had the power to fix the reasonableness of rates, on the presumption that the power to regulate is not the power to destroy, and limitation of rates is not equivalent to deprivation of property without due process...
...place". They are both striving for the same worthy end, but one seeks to accomplish it by the destruction of some positive goods, in order to prevent the possibility of indirect evils--in short, the end justifies the means--,whereas the other wishes to uphold positive good and destroy evil by a direct attack at its root, that is, individual abuse of a legitimate right. "Does the house-wife," argues the conservative, "cease to give bread to her children because some of them have at times made themselves sick by over-eating? No, she keeps a careful watch over...
...building up of the United States Navy. The efficiency of the United States Navy and its ability in very fact to guarantee by itself the neutrality of the Panama Canal will add immensely to our practical efficiency as a people in working for peace; and the surest way to destroy all power on our part to work for peace, and to render our conduct in seeking peace a subject of derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct...
...Department and reported upon unfavorably. A graduate of the University who withholds his name has offered to spend $300,000 for the construction of a suitable and decorative bridge provided that a draw is not required. The War Department maintains that the construction of a drawless bridge will destroy navigation on the river which may be made practicable as far as Dedham...