Word: london
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...editor of one of the great London weeklies said to an American traveller a few years ago: 'A stranger can hardly have an idea of how familiar many of our working people, especially women, are with Longfellow. Thousands can repeat some of his poems who have never read a line of Tennyson and probably never heard of Browning...
...early youth Mr. Smith was a clerk in an iron foundry. Later he obtained a mechanical education, and became an engineer and contractor. Under his direction were constructed the government sea wall around Governor's Island, a sea wall at Tompkinsville, S. I.; the Race Rock lighthouse off New London, and the foundation for the statue of Liberty, in the New York harbor. He has done much landscape water color painting, charcoal work and pen and ink illustrating, and has lectured extensively...
...feasibility of a race from New London to Newport after the Harvard-Yale crew race, June 27, was discussed...
There will be a lecture by two of the leading Russian revolutionists, Alexis Aladyin and Nicholas Tchaykovsky, aided by Mr. Kellog Durland of London, on "The Present Revolution in Russia," on Wednesday, March 6, at 8 o'clock in the Union. They will be entertained at the Signet Club at 4.30, dining at the Union at 6.30. The object of their talk is to advocate a refusal of further financial loans to the Russian government, and to represent the exact state of affairs which is now prevalent in Russia...
...northwestern and southern Arabia lie the greatest agricultural districts from which wheat superior to that from America is exported to London, and date orchards where over 500,000 tons of dates were raised last year. As long as the Arabs remain nomads, however, the future of Arabia will be dark. The wandering tribes destroy the railroads, break up commerce and rob the citizens. The Turkish government is offering rewards and free land as an encouragement for them to settle down and cultivate the soil...