Word: america
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...cable chess match between teams representing America and England, the American team won two games, tied, one, and lost one. Two were not finished. As the score now stands, the American team has 2 1-2 points to England's 1 1-2. The two unfinished games are to be adjudicated by Mr. Shipley, but the impression of experts is that America will win them. If this proves true, it gives the Rice Chess trophy to the Americans as this was the deciding match...
...availability, his ability to win votes, General Woodford said, everyone of the 15,000,000 policy holders of the insurance companies of America would gratefully cast his ballot for Hughes, and he is the only candidate who can certainly carry the 39 electoral votes of New York so necessary to Republican success...
...principle of co-operative production has in recent years obtained recognition in the domain of historical writing alike in Europe and in America. So enormous has become the store of materials now available to the historian and so insistent the demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single...
Among the volumes of the series are the following numbers by Harvard men: Provincial America, by E. B. Greene '90; The Jeffersonian System, by E. Channing '78; The Rise of American Nationality, by K. C. Babcock '95; The Jacksonian Democracy, by W. Macdonald '92; Slavery and Abolition, by A. B. Hart '90; Parties and Slavery, by T. C. Smith '92; The Appeal to Arms, and Outcome of the Civil War, by J. K. Hosmer '55; National Ideals Historically Traced, by A. B. Hart '80; Index to the Series, by D. M. Matteson...
...than a tennis match between acquaintances, and governed by the same rules of honor. We believe that this duty is already realized by the majority of American athletes; a fact that makes most of us who are conversant with real conditions, optimistic of the future of intercollegiate athletics in America. As sure as water seeks its own level, athletics, if not trammelled by too much legislation, will assume the position they deserve, without hindering the progress of the individual athlete, upon whom Dr. Sargent lays so much stress...