Word: recording
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although Bell was beaten in the hurdle race at Cedarhurst by Copeland, the amateur champion, he broke his own and the Harvard record, making the distance in 17 1-2 seconds...
Williams College holds the world's amateur record in throwing the base-ball, with a distance of 127 yards, 3 1-2 inches...
...Cleveland's pledges-(a) Guarded, limited and moderate; (b) to obey civil service law; (c) to make "no removals for partisan reasons solely": Transcript, Dec. 30, 1884; Nation, vol. 43, p. 68; Civil Service Record, June...
...expiration of term, resignation and death; (d) new appointments in the main excellent, especially in the diplomatic service; (e) President is not responsible for character of candidates recommended by congressmen and respectable citizens: Nation, vol. 41, 216; vol. 45, 61, 144, 103; Public Opinion, vol. II, 255; Civil Service Record...
...Commission, and favored an extension of the rules; (b) has resisted constant and enormous pressure from office-seekers; (c) owes a duty to his party; (d) neither political party favors reform; (e) he has established a good precedent, and made a return to the spoils system impossible: Civil Service Record...