Word: gang
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Work has been started on the speedway and river drive across the Soldiers Field marshes. A railroad has been laid to be used in the operations and three dredging machines are now removing the material from the Charles, with which the dike and drives are to be built. A gang of men is putting down a system of piping to drain the marshes back of the dike...
Many of these plans could, however, only be realized in the course of years, and actual progress was rather slow. In the following autumn a gang of fifty men were set to work on grading and filling in, and considerable progress was made. Similar work was continued spasmodically for the next year or two, until in the fall of 1892 it was possible for the field to be used at times for football practice. In the next two years work on the football field and the locker building was pushed rapidly, so that in the fall of 1893 the field...
...curtain rising discloses the band of pirates engaged in their favorite pursuits of sharpening their weapons and drinking. They sing for their opening chorus, "We're a miserable gang of ruffians...
...with the committee at Springfield with regard to having the Harvard-Yale game at Hampden Park this fall. Not only that, but satisfactory arrangements have been made for next year if the management wish to play the game there. At present the field is in poor condition, but a gang of men is at work, levelling, sodding and rolling it, so that it will be in the best of condition by Nov. 25. Mr. Burnham, who had the contract for putting up the stands last year, has the work again. This year, however, the pitch of the seats will...
There is a gang of thieves around Cambridge which is making a business of stealing bicycles, and we warn all men owning machines to be careful about leaving them unlocked. This gang has been at work since the middle of the summer and has now grown so bold that a bicycle was lately taken from the piazza of a private dwelling even at noon-day. We know of seven that have been stolen during the past month. A youth was captured yesterday who confessed that he had taken two machines, but while he was yet in custody another bicycle disappeared...