Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...high jump there were seven contestants, two more than at the first contest. Bell, '91, won with a jump of 5ft. 3 1-2 in. Hunnewell, '90, and Briggs, L. S., tied for second...
Blocks of convenient size made from high grades of paper are nearly ready...
...Academy of Music, Philadelphia. The ball-floor will be laid and a complete athletic field laid out. The events are open to all amateurs, and nine of the leading city newspapers have volunteered to give the first prizes, which will be gold medals. W. Byro Page, the champion high jumper of the world, has consented to enter in the high jump. The University Glee Club and orchestra will assist, and the meeting will be very interesting, as there are over a hundred entries...
...order to allow these great tows to pass through easily. As the Hudson at Poughkeepsie is 70 feet deep and has a large mud deposit, it is necessary to lower a large cassion with double sides. This box is 100 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 60 feet high, and weighted with gravel. Through holes in the top the mud is dredged out by a large machine, which lifts ten tons every five minutes. After the mud is dredged out the space is filled up by concrete, which hardens under the water. Upon this bottom stone piers 30 feet high...
...been made in the work is the substitution of iron and mild steel for brick. The spans of the Poughkeepsie bridge are built by means of a massive staging supported on large piles. This staging contains over one million feet of lumber and is within thirty feet as high as Trinity Church steeple, New York. Mr. Clarke then illustrated his remarks by a series of stereopticon views, which showed the manner in which the spans were constructed. At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. Clarke was greeted with loud applause...