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Word: extend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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Annexation would extend our frontier to a defencelss outpost, sufficently near the South Sea Islands for direct attack upon either of our positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS. | 12/4/1897 | See Source »

...States needs a coaling station in the Pacific; that in the event of a foregin war the United States would have to have such a station in order to sweep the Pacific of her enemies' ships. Yale answered this statement by saying that the annexation of Hawaii would only extend the boundary of the United States 2000 miles further westward, and would necessitate doubling the number of ships in our navy, increasing the army by 15,000 men, and it would cost $30,000,000 to fortify the Hawaiian Islands. All of this would be to only gain a drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WINS. | 12/4/1897 | See Source »

...reasons stated in the CRIMSON editorial of Monday, Section III makes the Australian system proposed unfair and undesirable. The remedy of dividing the offices into two groups and having two voting days would, it seems to me, cause the election to extend over too long a period of time and make it too complicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 11/30/1897 | See Source »

...Kindly extend through the CRIMSON to all Harvard students the privileges of Houston Hall during their visit to Philadelphia for football game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of P. Hospitality. | 11/19/1897 | See Source »

...possible for the eights to have a float of their own and will obviate the necessity of carrying the shells through the main building in taking them in and out. There will be a covered piazza behind the main building, equal in width to the distance the ell will extend beyond it. The front piazza will be extended in front of the ell in its new position and there will be a piazza ten feet wide between the ell and the main building. The necessary piles are almost all down and the gravel which is being dredged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Boat House Changes. | 10/22/1897 | See Source »

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