Word: footed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...data of hours and earnings of labor. In 1891 the Bureau of Labor was established in France. Specially trained agents are employed for thorough personal investigation and the results are classified according to the American method. In Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Canada, and Australasia a movement is on foot for the establishment of reliable official systems for the collection of statistics. Thus far, only the United States and the first three countries named--England, France and Belgium are on the system. Among these the data of the next five or ten years will make possible extensive comparisons which were...
...Wharf, which is situated on Atlantic Avenue, at the foot of State street, in Boston, is the dock at which all the fishing vessels coming into Boston harbor unload their cargoes. A reading room has been established at the end of the pier, and is intended as a place where the fishermen and sailors may spend their hours on shore. The room is fitted up with books, magazines, and games, and is open from 8 a. m. till...
...Murdoch gave also a short description of the methods of transportation on sledges and then finished with a description of a peculiar method of trapping wolves. The Eskimos take a piece of whalebone about a foot long, sharpen it at both ends, and bend it into the shape of a letter Z. This bone is then imbedded in a piece of blubber and frozen there so that it retains its Z shape. When a wolf sees one of these balls of blubber he swallows the mass whole. The heat of his stomach melts the blubber and the whalebone, thus...
First Mandolins.--W. A. Parker '01, W. S. Wait '01, M. L. Wetherell '01, J. G. Peirce '01, F. F. Hedemann '02, N. C. Foot '03, C. L. Perkins...
Business editors--G. O. Carpenter '02, N. C. Foot...