Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of a strong wind yesterday afternoon, the races of the Canoe Club took place at the time and place advertised. The course was about a quarter of a mile in length, beginning a few rods above the lower bridge, thence passing up past the boat house, around a stake a short distance below the upper bridge and finishing in front of the boat house...
There were four routes proposed for the canal-the southern route; the route by Panama; the ship railway, and the canal through lake Nicaragua. It was found that the southern route would require a tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan...
...Harvard Canoe Club will hold a set of scratch races tomorrow at four o'clock. The course will be from the bridge above the boat house, rounding the buoy above the lower bridge and back to the boat house; distance about half a mile. The following are the classes...
...interests of American trusts to lower prices when possible. (a) where prices are at first increased it is due to a reaction from ruinous competition. Remarks of Hon. F. B. Thurber to the N. Y. Senate...
...hour examination in History 13 for Tuesday, April 2, will be held in Lower Massachusetts at 12 noon...