Word: britain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale Glee club gave a concert at New Britain, Conn., Tuesday night...
...claims:- Dr. Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...
...attention of the Norsemen, owing to violent political upheavals, was turned toward Iceland and many of them migrated to that country. About half of the population was thus of Scandinavian origin, while the remainder came from Great Britain. These old Norsemen were a fine set of men, much superior to those we see there now. They supported themselves by commerce with the surrounding countries, and by what little agriculture they could carry on in their island...
...debate was opened for the affirmative by J. J. Higgins, L. S. He assumed that Canada desires annexation and that Great Britain is willing, and considered the advantages of union from that standpoint. He described the wealth and resources of the country, at the same time showing that we are rapidly exhausting our own country in the resources in which Canada is rich; so that it will soon be a question of owning Canada or pouring our money into her treasury...
Last Saturday there sailed on the "Aurania" from New York a number of representatives of the Manhattan and New York Athletic Clubs who are to compete at the English amateur meeting at Crewe on June 30, and at other places in Great Britain and on the Continent. The New York Athletic Club representatives are Emil Koos for the 100-yard dash; Edward C. Carter, who holds the American record from 1 1-5 mile to 10 miles, the 4 to 10 miles English championship and the 1 to 5 miles American and Canadian championship; Walter C. Dohm, the winner...