Word: port
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Alexander von Wolffersdoff Leslie, New port...
...Bridge fitted for college at the Boston Latin School, but lack of funds prevented him from entering. He established himself as a commission merchant in Boston, and in 1841 was appointed Principal Appraiser of the port of Boston. This position he hied until 1853, when he was appointed Appraiser General at San Francisco, where he was head of the whole Pacific coast department. In 1871 he retired from public life. He was all his life a generous and active philanthrophist. To his native town of Dresden, Me., he gave over $12,000 for the promotion of its religious, educational...
...where he seems to row well, and as he is the heaviest man in the boat, it helps also to trim her better. Shea also has changed sides, going from six to three. At present he does not low so well as at his old position on the port side. Russell has been changed from one side to the other, from three to four. The object of this shifting of positions is to bunch the heavier men in the centre of the boat, and as they row now, with Shepard. Duffield and Russell, each weighing over 180 pounds, the boat...
...many years ahead of the Brittishers in this respect. To begin with, the Oxford and Cambridge crews do not row with their seats over the keels as our crews do but the men are seated much the same as in Boston working boats, the starboard and port oarsmen sitting apart, outward and much nearer the gunwales...
Best general references: Minority Re-port on Woman Suffrage, 50th Congress. 2nd Session Senate Reports, 1. no. 2543 J. J. Ingalls; The Sixteenth Amendment Forum IV. 1-13 (Sept, 1887). An Appeal. against Female Suffrage, in Nineteenth Century XXV, 781-785 (June 1889). Bushnell's Women's Suffrage. the Reform against Nature...