Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...build of the oars. Oxford uses oars with 3 feet 9 inches "in board length," Cambridge with 3 feet 10 inches "in board length." The extra length "in board" must give gieater power of leverage and a stronger finish. It certainly prevents any difficulty in keeping the button against the pin at both ends of the stroke an important principle in watermanship. Rowing at Cambridge has for sixteen years been under the charge of Mr. Herbert Rhodes. The principles of his system are: The hands must shoot away smartly from the chest; as they release the body for the swing...
...tariff. (1) High wages in the United States are set by unprotected industries. Laughlin's note to Mill, p. 619. (2) Compare wages in protected industries in the United States and wages in those same industries in England-Report of J. G. Blaine, secretary of state, on the Button Goods Trade of the World, published by Department of State, Washington, June 25, 1881, (cited in Wells', Relation of the Tariff to Wages); Wells' Practical Economics, p. 143. (3) Wages in United States higher than abroad before there was any protection in the United States-Nation, October...
...recent meeting the Princeton Freshmen adopted a class cap of black serge, with an orange button, and '92 in orange numberals on the front...
LOST.- Half of a linked sleeve button, moss agate, set in gold. Please return to 10 Weld...
...DARLING.IF the person who accidentally took one cuff with a link gold button in it from a locker in the gymnasium will call at 15 Wadsworth House, he can have the mate...