Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Henry George, who was a passenger on the Alaska, and feared at one time that he would never again see any land to divide according to his principle of political economy, says that the "only thing that was any likelihood of running short in was lager beer," which would seem to show that great minds may descend to the consideration of small subjects, even in the midst of great perils...
This remarkable book is published anonymously, and is supposed to relate the experience of an individual who lives entirely in a land of two dimensions, i. e. to every individual there is only length and breadth, no height. The form of the author is supposed to be that of a square. In the course of his experiences, he meets with a land of one dimension,- viz.- line land,- and later on he is introduced to a land of three dimensions, spaceland; though at first he could not be convinced, when told by a sphere, that space possessed more dimensions than...
...Design, with 61 men and women. These bring up the total number of persons receiving instructions under the care of the corporation 709; but the two manual schools cannot properly be considered collegiate in nature. The Institute, situated as it is in the midst of the city, where land is very valuable, has no dormitories. The buildings belonging to it are four in number, the original Rogers Building, the New Building, the "Shops," and the Gymnasium and Drill Hall. The first two contain the lecture and drawing rooms, the laboratories, the collections and some of the work rooms. The "Shops...
Hines has made several attempts to catch a ball thrown from the Washington monument. In one instance he did not judge within thirty feet of where the ball would land; at another he caught the ball unexpectedly, but only held it for a second...
Excluding the city of Washington, the section of the country from Mary-land to Texas is represented in this college by only twenty-five men, -a number only slightly exceeding the representation in the university of the western city of San Francisco. Of course, the cause for this small showing of Southerners here is the impoverished state of the South since the war. Only a wealthy region sends men to college. But, in view of the present growth of the South toward prosperity this cause should soon be operating less and less. In fact, we hear that the number...