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Word: builds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Williams will probably build a toboggan slide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/2/1885 | See Source »

...some places has been erected. An engine and cars are being built for the trial trip, and it looks as if those interested in the L meant business this time. According to the provisions of the bill under which the Meigs Railroad is incorporated, it is necessary to build half a mile, and then make thorough trials of the merits and safety of the road before the track can be continued to Harvard Square, so we shall have to wait a year or two without doubt before the much desired means of rapid transit can be ours. The point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Elevated Railroad. | 10/20/1885 | See Source »

...Afterwards some of these players gave way to Edgerly, '86, Woodbury, '86, Litchfield, '87, and Willard, '87. Young, '89 shows up well behind the bat; he holds fast to the ball, recovers quickly, and throws with considerable accuracy. He is a man of about Allen's build, and resembles him somewhat in his general style of catching. Various changes were made in pitchers, Ferry, '86, Litchfield, '87, and Bingham, '89, all tried their hand at it. Bingham is of short, stocky build, throws a very swift ball with sharp curves, and seems to possess a cool head. Litchfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Practice of the Nine on Holmes. | 10/6/1885 | See Source »

...relations of the scholar and the laborer, Mr. Hale concluded by saying: "Their life is our life. Our life is theirs. They know it, and we know it. Man of work or man of letters, our duty is the same-to lift up what has fallen down, to build higher the courses of the national life, to see to-morrow better, happier, stronger than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/18/1885 | See Source »

...committee having the supervision of the present plans must reduce them to reasonable limits. If that is impossible, let them reject the present plans entirely and employ an architect to draw new plans, the execution of which shall not be beyond the means of the people who are to build the stand. It is necessary that a grand stand such as we need should be well made, and not a mere temporary affair, and also desirable that it should be ornamental and in keeping with its surroundings; but it is not necessary to spend a small fortune upon it. More...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1885 | See Source »

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