Word: america
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...something, let him read Mrs. Field's and Mrs. Lowell's books on charity, and then let him go to the Associated charities. He will be brought immediately face to face with the problem of immigration with its ramifications in socialism, intemperance and cheap labor. The people of America do not realize their social responsibilities. The comfortable doctrine is accepted that the problems of poverty are too complicated for interference, and that competition will work everything out in time. The poor are not suffering for their own vices and sins, but for ours. We are responsible...
...pound weight 15 feet into the air, breaking the record by 1 ft. 3 in. In putting the 24-pound shot, J. S. Mitchell tied with F. Lambrecht, both covering a distance of 32 ft. 7 in. The best previous record was 25 ft. 7 in. in America and 27 ft. 11 in. in England...
...race and get used to the English water, are the smallest periods of time that can possibly be considered. Moreover, if Yale is to row an English crew, the only inducement for such a race is to determine the merits of the best university eights of the two countries, America and England. It would be unfair to Yale, and indeed to all lovers of rowing in this country, to put a crew on the water representing Yale which was not the best that Yale could furnish. It must be, in short, a representative Yale crew and a representative American university...
...which will probably be accompanied by a toppiece of the lotus-columns of the temple. As fast as the sculptures are received they will be placed in the Egyptian department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where they will form the most interesting collection of Egyptian antiquities in America, and will also be of great value from an artistic point of view...
...times. The natives of Babylonia are always digging at various points in a desultory way and find a profit in the sale of the tablets found, of whose literary value they have no conception. Many of these tablets find their way to Europe and some of them come to America...