Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...oars alone can ne'er prevail to reach the distant coast...
...with slight ups and downs, in the last five years. It is difficult to draw any accurate conclusions from the figures of the states with smaller representations. Comparing similar statistics during the period from 1904 to 1908, there has been a gradual increase in California and Washington on the Coast and a corresponding increase in the Middle Western states of Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana. New York and Illinois have decreased during this period while Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio have been fairly uniform. In the South, Georgia and Tennessee have increased steadily but the general representation from this section...
...contracts on the basis of the cost plus a fixed sum. He is the author of several books on construction problems, and was the contractor of Dr. Sargent's gymnasium, the Cambridge Electric Power-house and many buildings in Boston and New York, as well as on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Gilbreth has done much to put contracting on a higher standard in this country...
...could the young lady be "enclosed by her background," and what is a "perennial" sermon? The warning against believing all we read in newspapers, "The Tyranny of the Press," is timely. "From Clatsop to Nekarney" is a vivid and interesting description of a long walk on the coast of Oregon. The tragic story of the young musician Roderigo is well told in "The Church of Santa Rosa," and there is a laudatory analysis of Sheldon's play "Salvation Nell...
...accession, from the gift of Dr. John Bryant '03, of Cohassett, Mass a valuable collection of soapstone lamps, cooking pots and various other articles taken from the graves of Eskimos of the North Labrador peninsula. The collection, which was made by Dr. Bryant during a visit to the Labrador coast last summer, will be on exhibition the latter part of this month. A miniature group, illustrating the houses of the Eskimos of Baffin Land, has recently been set up and is now on exhibition on the second floor of the museum...