Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...next proceeds to point out a way of obviating them. He shows how Boston has met some of the problems by placing her parks, her water supply, her library, city hospital, and fire department in the hands of commissions, thus relieving the mayor, aldermen, and council, of a large amount of municipal business. In Galveston, Texas, the mayor, aldermen, and council are entirely replaced by a single body whose functions are wholly administrative. There are five men elected by the people, each with a department of the city's business under his supervision. Under these commissioners the proper experts...
...reform. The Boston elections, he said, coming as they do in December, place the mayor in a hard position for immediate remedies, as his petitions for improvements and general city management are due almost at once, before he realizes what is most necessary; this, together with the enormous amount of improvement needed, is responsible in part for the present situation in Boston...
About 300 tickets have been sold. A bond of $350 has been filed with the hotel management and will be forfeited if articles to the amount of $15 are broken. If not, a rebate of $1 will be refunded to each purchaser of a ticket. Evening dress will not be worn. Men not already assigned to tables may make arrangements with the committee before the dinner...
This indicates the most important phase of the value of Thucydides's historical work, namely, trustworthiness. Although it took a large amount of firm independence, Thucydides departed entirely from historical methods current in his day and emphasized accuracy as the prime necessity of history...
...built, it stood appropriately at the entrance to Holmes Field, the old athletic grounds. Since the donation of Soldiers Field, however, all athletic interests have been moved across the Charles, and the Gymnasium was left away from its natural position. The main hall is very small, and the great amount of apparatus decreases the floor space. That the running track is value-less is proved by the fact that a board running track is built outside on Holmes Field for the track work during the winter. Basketball and track practice conflict on the floor of the main hall...