Word: landed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...then carried out was due almost entirely to the vigorous opposition of certain residents of the north side of Beacon Street, whose objection grew out of the proposal to pay for the dam by filling in the basin in he rear of their houses so as to create land on which a new row of houses could be built. The plan now put forward does not contain this obviously objectionable feature. It is opposed to any filling in of the basin except such moderate strip as may be necessary to change the present unsightly alley in the rear...
...present projects is not open to a single objection that was seriously urged against the plan of 1894. In that year it was argued before the Earbor and Land commission, by eminent counsel who were retained to prevent the erection of new houses back of Beacon street, that any stopping of the ebb of the tide from the Charles River Basin twice daily would injure certain channels of the harbor, but in opposition to this contention several of the most eminent engineers of the state have expressed the opinion that the tidal scour theory has no application to the conditions...
...insure the practical progress of this great improvement the engineering plans and estimates which can be secured only by a special commission appointed for the purpose. Some people, however, may have the impression that a somewhat similar investigation was made in certain hearings held before the Harbor and Land Commission in 1894, but since the present project is so radically different from the one then considered, and since so many and important changes have taken place in the conditions which bear on the practicability of this scheme, it seems reasonable after the lapse of over six years...
...planned that twenty men at a cost of 8500 apiece charter the steamer "Leopard," of 320 tones (gross) and explore the coasts of Greenland as far as Disko, of Baffin Land to the head of Frobisher Bay, and of Labrador, including Ungana bay and the high mountain ranges on the northern coast. The "Leopard" has sufficient coal capacity for this cruise, is built to penetrate ice-fields, and would be very roomy for a party of twenty. The chief aim of this expedition will be to combine geological sight-seeing with as much serious exploration as possible...
...feelings of the crowd. To study changing literary tastes is to approach human life in all its aspects. It takes no knowledge of philosophy to do this, because observation is all that is necessary. Literary fashions are affected by the climate, the religion and the politics of the land. Just as the fashions of a country are sometimes curious, sometimes amusing, so are the literary tastes of that country interesting...