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...created, for tens of thousands of people, especially young ones, a social catastrophe that the conventional institutions of a free society are, in the short run, powerless to correct. But for different people and at different times, much the same thing happened: in the cities of the 1830s, the 1880s, the 1910s. Those who survived were the strong, the mobile and the lucky...
...just tools, but art objects. "The plate stacks," Art says, "they're one of the most impressive things around here." The Plate Stacks are two floors of green metal cabinets full of stars captured in glass. This treasury, containing about half a million pictures which go back to the 1880s, forms the cornerstone of Building C. Martha Liller, guardian of the plates, explains that the expensive collection is one of the long-range investments of the Observatory; only in recent years has it begun to pay off in fashionable fields such as quasars and X-ray sources. She demonstrates...
Administration officials concede that not all of their proposals will be adopted. But they are confident that chances for change in the nation's creaky transportation regulatory system, whose underpinnings go back to the 1880s, when the ICC was established, are better than 50%. One possible benefit: increased competition among common carriers could encourage some companies, like large retailers, to cut costs by getting out of the trucking business. These companies have established their own truck fleets, not because it is efficient, but because they felt it was the only way they could cope with the maze...
Throughout the first century of Harvard-Yale football contests action has often exceeded the bounds of fair and friendly competition. Increasing violence during the early 1880s compelled the Harvard faculty in 1885 to abolish Ivy League competition. Harvard was still allowed to play non-Ivy League schools, but most players felt, as an Advocate editorial read, that "The game would not be worth the candle. No strong interest can be aroused among the students at large until we are allowed to play Yale and Princeton." In the summer of 1886 the faculty agreed to allow the team to schedule...
Japanese began arriving in Hawaii in the 1880s, when white plantation owners started importing them as farmhands. Even in the 1920s, Royal Mead, a spokesman for sugar planters, told a congressional committee: "The white people, the Americans in Hawaii, are going to dominate and will continue to dominate-there's no question about it." But the Caucasian elite did not figure on the dedication of members of the issei (immigrant) generation to the social mobility of their offspring. Though often illiterate, they hammered home the value of education. "When I was still a kid," recalls Governor Ariyoshi, "I told...