Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of the City of New York has bought a new lot of 20 acres, the total cost being $581,000. The present site will be kept, but the old building will be removed to the new lot. In course of time there will be erected on the new land a library, chapel, dormitories...
...speeches on "What we did in China, Honolulu, India, or the Holy Land" were barred to the two Welds and Blanchard, while Luce was forbidden to give any of his experiences as "The Yankee who has been the farthest into Afghanistan...
...endowed by Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss of N. Y. city, a native of Salisbury, with funds amounting to $200,000 in addition to the sum of $150,000, the cost of the buildings, and $25,000, the cost of the surrounding land, which has an area of seventy-five acres. The school buildings will have a frontage of five hundred feet, with a large three-story structure at the centre, flanked at either end with buildings for the masters, which will connect with the central structure by covered corridors...
...steam engine; but even now the methods of utilizing it are very imperfect. In the best engines only about one-fifth of the energy of the coal is made use of. Wind has long been used as a source of energy and its use is increasing especially on land. Owing to the inconstancy of the wind, if it is to be used much in the future, it will probably be in connection with the storage battery...
...Mayor of Lyme Regis," by S. P. Duffield, and "Mile. Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...