Word: ending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steel. Steel is better than iron because equal strength can be gained with less weight and bulk and greater durability. It seems probable that steel will be the best material for building bridges in the future. The simplest form of a bridge is a beam supported at the ends. This form is suitable only for very short spans, for the load is transverse and the beam tends to break in the middle of its own weight. Strength is obtained by bracing together two or more systems of trusses. These trusses are made of beams bolted together in triangles, so that...
Princeton has its minstrel show this evening. The '90 orchestra will furnish the music. The end men are: Bones-King, '88; Segur, '89; Edwards, '89; tambos-Graham, '88; Irvine, '88; Brackett, '90. Interlocutor, Studdiford...
...Bailey, Balch, Bohlen, Brock, Bruce, Cunning-ham, Curtis, Fowler, W. W. Gale, Harlow, Harvey, Hay, Henderson, Horton, Kimball, Latham, Leahy, LeRoy, Payson, Robinson, Ropes, Sampson, Sanford, D. L. Smith, Ulrich, Woodworth. If these men would only be energetic for fifteen minutes a piece, it would put an end to all this bother...
...Cambridge aldermen have granted the West End railway the right to use the cable system in this city...
Twenty more south end tickets for next Saturday's meeting will be put on sale at Bartletts, this morning at 9 o'clock...