Word: loweringly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...present, and two scrimmages were kept going throughout the afternoon between the corresponding first and second divisions. The Freshman teams A and B, however, were withheld, as they will meet Boston University in a practice contest tomorrow. Particular efforts are being made to find more material on the lower teams, and the scrimmages served that purpose. The substitutes found little trouble in the light Rindge line-ups, and ploughed through for scores almost at will, especially against the schoolboy regulars. H. S. Grew was back in uniform and went through a light workout. Signals constituted the bulk of work given...
...particular season, several factors are considered. Every team that is organized in a sport is included in the competition and the result is not decided on the outcome of the contest between the first teams from each dormitory alone, but also on the outcome of the contests between the lower teams. In all the sports in which there is a team that plays against other colleges, the representation of each dormitory on this team is also counted because such men would not be represented in the decision otherwise as they are not permitted to play for their dormitories...
...made with full consideration of today's price level. The answer is beside the point. The restaurant owners, when asked what percentage they are making, reply that they do not know. A business man knows what his profits are when he so chooses. One owner replied this: "They are lower than they ever have been." This means nothing. If the profits are extortionately high now, what have they been...
Investigation of affairs is surely justified when we find such an attitude. If the restaurant owners showed some desire to lower prices when it is possible, if they could show figures that would justify their position, the public might have some sympathy. Investigations are usually like the bark of a dog. There is no bite. But at least they serve to stir up public opinion, and this will in itself force the restaurant owners to take more nearly equable profits...
This situation does not strike so severely a number of very widely advertised cars whose makers were not unwilling to take advantage of the heavy demand to inflate prices far in excess of any economic justification. Such organizations are now philanthropically paying the way to lower car costs by the simple expedient of knocking off a few hundred dollars worth of frosting, leaving for themselves a cake that would still delight any moderately conscientious business man and still allowing the dear public to pay, for the privilege of purchasing their product, an advertising cost said to run from...