Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George's Hall at Windsor. Five o'clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement, with a dumb waiter on each side of him. The tables and chairs are of solid oak. Royal joints of ruddy roast beef and generous fare fit for manly appetites, make the Harvard "commons" about as satisfactory to the inner man as its learned and scholarly aspect to the student...
HANOVER, Jan. 23, 1882. The opening of the term here on the 19th was marked by its usual sequences of light attendance at chapel and a disinclination on the part of those who had come to time to enter upon good solid study...
...cent., and only a short time ago we saw a note given for $10,000, on which interest was paid at the rate of three and one-half per cent. Now, why does the Dining Association have to pay seven per cent.? Is the association not on a good, solid basis, or is the corporation "afraid of it?" We agree with our correspondent that something ought to be done about this matter at once...
...scene of the Cole's Corner disaster on the Boston and Maine Railroad, the ruins have mostly been cleared away. In the place of the old bridge, a solid wooden one has been erected, which will not be permanent. Actual loss in rolling stock $20,000, and the cost of the bridge...
...solid and good...