Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passengers. The hull is made of white cedar planking, copper fastened throughout, but the keel, frames and waining are made of white oak. The decks are of white pine. The boiler is of sectional steel pipe tested to four hundred pounds hydraulic pressure. The engine can develope fifty horse power at six hundred revolutions. A speed of six teen miles continuously on a consumption of one hundred pounds of coal an hour is guaranteed. A light canvas awning stretched over a slight galvanized pipe affords protection against the weather, while acurtain stretched across from the after bulkhead to the roof...
Judge Cooley said that the lawful power of the state to limit the rates of transportation is now acknowledged. If the government owned the railroads it would be a comparatively simple matter to regulate rates, for it might establish a standard of rates which seemed expedient. Such action might arouse criticism, it might involve political complications, but it would simply be on the analogy of our laws relating to taxation. For over fifty years railroads were managed by corporations before any attempt was made to regulate rates. But the irresponsible and arbitrary action of corporations finally forced first the state...
...umpire shall have full power in deciding the postponement of games and in calling games on account of darkness...
...umpire shall have full power in case of intentional delay by a team to declare the game forfeited to the other team...
...allow the students to enjoy some of the good results of the library. The benefits of this plan have already been pointed out and must be apoarent to all, so that anyone who has anything to do with the German department should stand ready to do anything in his power to further the scheme...