Word: river
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Government undertakings (a) are not conducted economically.- Cong-Record, p. 9375. For instance, in river and harbor bills.- Lalor, Vol. II, p. 572. (b) Are not always well managed, as in the post office.- No. Am. Review...
Four Harvard graduates were among the mayors elected in Massachusetts on Tuesday. Mr. H. M. Burr, Harvard '78, was chosen mayor of Newton; Mr. J. F. Jackson, the mayor-elect of Fall River, graduated in the class of '73; and Mr. W. Clifford, the new mayor of New Bedford, took degrees at both college and law school...
...Cambridge High School plays the Fall River High School at Fall River today for the school foot-ball championship of the State...
Owing to an unfortunate misunderstanding, the float at the boat-house has been taken up. As a result the members of the junior class crew will be unable to practice on the river during the early part of the coming month as they had hoped. It seems to us that in the future it would be policy to leave the float alone until an order comes from the captain of the 'Varsity crew to take it away, and if any class crew desired to use the float when there was danger of its being carried...
...idea of "The Dark River" is somewhat better than the execution. The plot seems capable of a more careful treatment than it has received. Yet a word may certainly be said for simplicity of the style...