Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...colleges can boast a prouder record or more eminent alumni than the old University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, a fact which he thought worthy to be chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence. The fact that he was twice President of the United States Jefferson thought less worthy of record. Although prostrated by the war, the university has since that time received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts, exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no President but its affairs are administered...
...BRIGHTON. N. Y., Nov. 17, 1888. C. J. Queckberner of the Staten Island Athletic Club broke nearly all records of hammer throwing at the club grounds at West Brighton on Saturday. He had six trial throws in each event. The first was a 12 pound hammer, handle 3 ft. 6in. The best throw was in the six trial, when he sent the hammer 116 ft. 4 in., beating all amateur and professional records. The next trial was with a 16 pound hammer, handle 3 ft. 6 in. He failed to break the record, 99 ft. 7 in., in the first...
Best general reference: Desty's Federal Constitution, pp 279-288, 326-333; Bump's Notes of Constitutional Decisions, pp 369-381; Pomeroy's Constitutional Law, pp 174-183; E. C. Walthell, The Race Problem in the South, in Cong. Record...
...such power is granted the U. S. Government by the constitution:- Cong. Record, 1874-1875, Appendix, pp 103, 113, 117, 143, 156. (a) All powers not granted by the constitution are reserved to the States:- Constitution, amendment 10. (b) Powers actually granted are express powers or powers derived by neccesary implication:- Cong. Record, 1879, part 2, p 955. 11 Wallace...
...condition of the negro in the South is improving:- Cong. Record...