Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fishing season lasts only about six months on account of the ice. The cod, which are caught mostly by seines, are shipped to Europe and Brazil, being kept from American markets because of the high tariff. The icebergs are one of the greatest sights of the coast and because of their immense size and large numbers they are also a great danger to the mariner. The pictures of icebergs showed their great beauty, towering height and vivid coloring...
President Eliot has accepted an invitation to speak before the Canadian Association of American Universities at Montreal on February 22. This Association is composed of men living in Canada who have studied at some university in the United States...
...from Western Reserve University. He practised law for a time, and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1860. Since then he has held pastorates at Terre Haute, Indiana, New England Church, New York, and Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. For three years after the Civil War he was secretary of the American Union Commission for the aid of freedmen. In 1869 he resigned his pastorate at New York to devote himself to literature. He edited the "Literary Record," of Harper's Magazine, and was associate editor of the "Christian Union" with Henry Ward Beecher. Dr. Abbott is at present editor...
Professor E. C. Moore will visit China this year as a member of a committee of three sent by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to investigate the work which is being done by the Board in that country...
...conference of the World's Student Christian Federation at Tokyo in the first week of April; but, on account of his work on the committee, which consists of a journey through the country to study the progress made in the educational and medical institutions under the charge of the American Board, he will be unable to accept. Professor Moore will return next September...