Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...decline in American shipping is not due to lack of free registry. - (a) Foreign registry was not permitted at the time that the American merchant marine was the foremost in the land. - (b) Changes from wood to iron; sail to steam; and changes in machinery are the real causes of this decline. - (c) The civil war enabled Gt. Britain to get a long start over the United States at a critical time. - (d) Wages on Am. ships are higher. - (e) Lack of proper mail subsidies granted by our government...
...laps to the mile with raised corners, and short spikes may be used by the runners. The ordinary iron shot will be used instead of the gymnasium ball. Hurdles will be evenly distributed on every lap, and in the vaults and high jump mats will be used to land upon...
...Professor White's explanation last night of the plans for the equipment of the Soldiers' Field a new phase of the Athletic Committee's service to the University appears. The gentlemen who comprise this body have been at work since Major Higginson gave the land and have devised a series of plans which will give us the greatest athletic field in the world...
...Happiest Land, Hatton...
...political methods were inexpedient and wrong. - (a) Obstruction policy in Parliament; Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (b) Opposition to Land Act of 1881; Times, 8 Oct. 1891. - (c) Unscrupulous agents: Nineteenth Century, vol. 27, p.357; Times 8 Oct. 1891. - (d) Resistance to landlords and boycotting: Blackwoods, March, 1890; Times, 8 Oct, 1891. - (e) Tacit encouragement of crime; Times...