Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yale's first run was made in the second inning. Adams caught one of Ames's easy balls and sent the hottest kind of a grounder into extreme left field and made a beautiful home...
Corea has long been a battle ground for China and Japan, and she has received slight consideration from either. For three hundred years the Coreans have paid tribute to China and Japan. In 1875 the Japanese acknowledged Corea's independence, and it has since been a kind of "Monroe Doctrine" that no other nation should control her future. This was one of the strongest motives in the war. Other causes were the maintenance of her commerce and the traditional enmity to China; but the desire to hold the balance of power in the east was sure to bring about...
...Progress has been made in the laboratory work on the road building stones of the state. Experiments of this kind are carried on at Harvard University in the Lawrence Scientific School, whose dean, Professor N. S. Shaler, is a member of the Highway Commission. The chief aim of these inquiries has been to determine the qualities which constitute fitness for road making. This will be of value to the Commission in enabling them to utilize the road material near at hand, and thus lessen the cost of construction. As this phase of the work progresses maps are made showing...
...England reptiles include the tortoises, snakes and batracians but there are no lizards or crocodiles. There are about ten different species, of batrachians of which the largest is a kind of salamander. These creatures feed on animal food and lay their eggs in the water...
Yale's new Law School building is one of the finest and best arranged structures of its kind in the United States. It is entirely paid for, by money raised by personal solicitation on the part of Dean Wayland, who has labored most energetically to secure for Yale a structure that would be a credit to the university...