Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Trusts and combinations are an economic evil. (a) They destroy competition, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company. (b) They often limit and suppress production. (c) By control of the market they can raise prices the Copper Syndicate. (d) They tend to build up monopolies and drive small capitalists out of business.- Quarterly Journal of Economics. Jan. 1889. New York State Leg. Report...
...novel and most important feature of the telescope is the mirror. This is polsed or hinged so that it may be set at whatever angle is necessary for reflecting the object of study into the telescope field; but there is this strict limit of the range of observation, that the object must be at or near to meridian. For the contemplated uses of the instrument this limitation is not regarded as a disadvantage, as the meridian position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror...
...limit set for the first round of the whist tournament has expired but the matches were so evenly contested that there are ties for second place in both sections. In section A, Brown and Davis have received first place, and in section B, Rogers and De Normandie. The complete score is as follows...
...apparent. The number of men at present on the club is thirty-two. Heretofore the freshman glee clubs have contained not more than twenty-seven voices, but this year, owing to the closeness of the competition, it was thought best to try the experiment of going beyond the usual limit. If it is found later on that the club would do better with fewer men, probably about five voices will be dropped-two from the first basses and one from each of the other parts. The club is not quite as far advanced as the Ninety-one club...
...Boston Athletic Club has admitted one hundred new members, thereby increasing its membership to 1500. This is the limit, and no more applicants can be admitted without a special vote of the club...