Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kneed and bolted to posts-accident could not have happened. From further examination it appears, from drawing submitted, that the 3x10 plank that was shouldered into pile and bolted to same, and carried up under 8x10 somer and toe nailed to same, assisted the downfall as soon as any settlement took place, or the washing away of the mud of embankment around and about piles under same. The manner in which the girders, or somers, supporting second platform are connected with main building, is imperfect and insecure-the whole structure is of a light nature, and would suggest that...
...Peabody, who was formerly and for many years pastor of the Unitarian church in Portsmouth, N. H., is to occupy that pulpit the first Sunday in November, the occasion being commemorative of the fiftieth anniversary Sunday of his settlement over that society...
...after considering this question, the class day committee think there will not be room, the freshmen will yield gracefully. The best and shortest way out of the difficulty appears to be for '86 to elect a committee to confer with the senior committee and thus reach a speedy settlement. The question could be fully discussed in a joint committee of the two classes, and whatever decision arrived at would be better understood and accepted by the freshmen...
...Rival Sultanas - Satisfactory Settlement of their Claims - Indisposition of the Pasha and Recovery of Medora - The Dervise - Conrad blows his own Trumpet, but without the success usually attendant upon that common musical feat...
...that he was a member of Emmanuel College, Cambridge; that in 1635 he received his degree; that afterwards, in 1637, he obtained the higher one of A. M. In the latter part of this year he set sail for this country and became a freeman of the Puritan settlement. In 1638 he died...