Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there will be placed the Golden Gate of Freiberg Cathedral, in such a manner as to form the entrance to the next hall, the Gothic...
...states that conditions are no worse near the College than elsewhere in the city, but this seems scarcely tenable, Quincy street throughout its entire length, and Kirkland and Oxford streets where fronted by University grounds, are in a deplorable state, uneven and with crossings several inches above the proper level, while Trowbridge and Craigie streets are, comparatively speaking, in good repair. The condition of Dunster street and Boylston as far out as the Stadium, and of those streets around the Post Office block is disgraceful, even making every allowance for the wear occasioned by subway construction. In fact it seems...
...canal once decided upon, engineers were a long time determining the kind of a canal to be built. The lock type was finally adopted for many reasons, one of the most important of which was the presence of the Charges river, which with its frequent floods made a sea-level canal out of the question. The greatest problem of all to be solved was that of sanitation, the problem that the French never solved. Through the wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced...
...defended the present lock canal system, saying that a sea level waterway was impracticable owing to the great depth of cuts thereby necessitated and the consequent danger of overwhelming sliders, the difference in tide level between the two oceans, and last but not least, the great river which would have to be cared for and which now furnishes water for high levels, water power, and electricity,--the last for towing ships through the canal and for running the broad-gauge railway left by the old De Lesseps Company...
...relay races were accepted almost in their entirety. Contestants in the broad jump were voted an unlimited run, but the take-off must be from behind the scratch line, which was defined as the outer edge of a joist eight inches wide, set firmly in and on the same level with the ground. A new paragraph was added to article 23 of the Law of Athletics, as follows: "A competitor knocking down three or more hurdles or any portion of three or more hurdles in a race, shall be disqualified. A competitor who fouls his leg or foot alongside...