Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...approach is easy. There are no examinations to be under-gone, and no special training is necessary. The interest of the publisher is the same as that of the author, and there is no antagonism. The old writers are dropping out of the ranks, and it is the strongest desire of every editor to discover an unknown genius...
...spite of the storm, a large audience assembled in Sever 11 last night to hear the strongest argument for free trade that has been made here for some time. The lecturer, Rev. John G. Brooks of Brockton, said that the argument that a high tariff raises wages is entirely untenable, and that private self-interest, not anxiety about the condition of the laborer, was the real motive of the protectionist. The general average of wages is entirely unaffected by protection, since the rate of wages depends only on the amount produced by the laborer. It is said that when wages...
...played in the field in several 'Varsity games last year. He is a careful fielder and a hard but not very sure hitter. Osborne played behind the bat on his class nine and is probably the only man in college who can hold Dann's switt pitching. His strongest point, however, is at first base, which he is able to cover easily. He has played more or less in the field, but is not a very sure man outside of the diamond. McClintock, '90, played right field in two of the championship games last year, when both Kellogg and Brigham...
...foot-ball team, wishes to come to Harvard and will doubtless do so. The other foot-ball men who will enter with '92 are Harding, the best quarter-back Exeter has ever had, brother of Harding, quarter back on the 'Varsity this fall; Vail, lett guard, and the strongest man in the Academy; Brooks, end-rush for two years, and D. B. Dufileld, substitute full back. T. W. LaMonte and S. P. Duffield, editors of the Exonian and Literary Monthly, and Jones, business editor of the "Lit," also intend to come to Harvard...
...machine, which lifts ten tons every five minutes. After the mud is dredged out the space is filled up by concrete, which hardens under the water. Upon this bottom stone piers 30 feet high are built, and above these steel piers 100 feet high. This concrete masonry is the strongest made, and will sustain a pressure of 100 tons...