Word: carting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...when arresting a criminal is really a judge of the first instance, who must quickly decide what constitutes a crime. He is also the only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...
...President and Fellows of the University have voted to present a combination chemical fire engine and hose cart, and a pair of horses, to the city of Cambridge, and to invite Mayor Thurston to co-operate with them in the selection of the gift. The city government has taken no action in regard to the offer; but it is expected that the gift will be accepted...
...lecturer gave a detailed account of the manner of preparing the condemned for the scaffold, from the moment when they had heard their death sentence in the hall where sat the Revolutionary Tribunal up to the time when the victims were made to ascend the cart waiting at the gate of the Conciergerie. The itinerary followed by these carts on their way to the scaffold can readily be traced along the existing streets of the French metropolis...
...clock this evening in the Fogg Lecture Room, Dr. A. W. Ryder, Instructor in Sanskrit in the University, will give a lecture on an ancient Sanskrit Drama, "The Little Cart." Dr. Ryder will give translation in English prose and verse of selected scenes...
...Lecture. The Little Clay Cart (an ancient Sanskrit drama). Dr. A. W. Ryder. Fogg Lecture Room...