Word: came
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Constitution has ever assembled; all amendments heretofore ratified originated in the Congress. Most of them are almost as old as the Constitution itself, and were considered when the Constitution was under consideration for ratification or rejection, and were informally endorsed when it was ratified. One other amendment came as a result of the Jefferson-Burr contest for the Presidency. Three amendments--the only ones made in the last hundred years--are the Constitutional product...
There had been, half a century before, an earlier Tenement House Commission, appointed by the Senate of the State, to see what ailed New York. It came back to Albany and recommended, as a means of abolishing drunkenness, "furnishing to each man a clean and comfortable home. I suppose they laughed at that, called it paternal government, and, put in that bald shape, it looked like it. There were fifteen thousand tenements in New York at that early day. Today there are eighty thousand and their united influence goes toward the destruction of the home. The discovery, on this side...
...Riis who has written the article to be published tomorrow is known as journalist and author. He was born in Denmark in 1849, and came to this country while still a boy. He was well known for years as police reporter of the New York Sun, and he has always been most active in the small parks and play grounds movement, and in securing reforms in tenement house and school administrations. Among his books are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "Nibsy's Christmas," "Out of Mulberry Street," "The Battle with the Slum," "Theodore Roosevelt...
...this development of homogeneity each step has been in sequence to what has preceded. The first desire for union was the result of fear of the mother country. Later, came the War of the Rebellion, the greatest war the world has ever seen, and the result was a Union, welded in the white heat of civil combat. This was not planned, it was evolved. The policy of national liberality to those who have built railroads and factories, was of vast importance to the further development of the Union. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been characterized by contests for territory...
...presumably by mistake. It contained not only valuable notes of my own, but also references belonging to Professor H. L. Smyth, which he used in connection with a course on mining methods. The failure to return the note-book is inexcusable, for it bore my name and address, and came into the hands of the present possessor through his own careless mistake. Yours very truly, E. E. WHITE, Assistant in Mining and Metallurgy...