Word: roades
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual ten mile road race of the Cycling Association will take place November 6. This race has always been a very popular event. It is handicap and riders are given liberal time allowances, and it is hoped that a large number of new men will come out. A fine time prize will be offered as an incentive to the fast riders to establish a new 'varsity record for this distance. The course will be a new one and will be officially surveyed. Prizes will be put on exhibition at Leavitt and Peirces Saturday. All entries must be made on regular...
...Road-Race course through Fresh Pond Reservoir and Belmont...
...Gawain sets out soon after in search of the Green Chapel. After encountering many dangers on the road, he finally arrives at a large castle in a forest. Here he is handsomely entertained by the hoast, who tells him that the Green Chapel is but two miles distant. The day after his arrival Sir Gawain asks to be allowed to rest in bed, being tired out with his travels. The host then makes a proposal that each one should give the other what he gets on that day. The host goes deer hunting. During the day the mistress...
...Pooling is a positive evil.- (a) Pooling tends to deprive the public of the benefits of improvement in the R. R. service: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 229.- (i) A road will get from the pool its alloted share of patronage whether it affords the best or the poorest service to the public.- (b) Pooling causes an artificial maintenance of rates, which stimulate the construction of parallel and competing lines: Select Senate Comm. Rept. on Inter-State Commerce, Evidence, pp. 888, 1295, 127.- (c) Pools tend to increase the frequency and violence of Railway wars: Hudson...
...unnoticed. The elements that inhere in New York are in our towns and villages varied crimes in extent and depth; the crime, also the degradation and the lethargy. Pure unselfish and loyal citizenship is needed throughout the country as well as in the city. Back in the country road vice lurks and purity waits long for succor. Each man's duty is nearest to his hand...