Word: sizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...check. - (2) Too great increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...
...mentioned are four doors, leading to as many rooms, which are about twelve feet square. These are to be used by the professors. Two or three steps more lead to another and longer landing hall. This leads to two recitation rooms. They are about 27 by 38 feet in size. These rooms are well lighted. There are about a dozen windows ten feet high and four feet wide. The walls are wainscoted in hard pine and painted, as is the woodwork throughout the building, brownish drab...
With the steady, rapid growth of the College, and the consequent increase in the business to be transacted in the College offices, the inadequacy of the latter is yearly becoming more painfully evident. The small size of the rooms and their unsatisfactory equipment are far from suggesting the great importance of the work done by the Dean, the Secretary and the Recorder, while ignoring the difficulties which attend the performance of that work. In the case of the Recorder, for instance, it seems very unfair that the necessary annoyances of his position should be aggravated by any lack of facilities...
When the history of the present century is written, one of the most important events to describe will be the colonization of Africa and its division among the great European nations. In spite of the large size of this continent, very little is known about it, and few settlements have been made. This is partly explained by the unhealthfulness of the climate, and by the fact that the large rivers are closed to navigation by rapids near their mouths...
...game gives an excellent opportunity for team work, as in lacrosse, the only difference being that in lacrosse a small ball is used which is passed by means of the stick, while in holeball a large ball about the size of a football is used, which is passed by hand...