Word: strucke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Congress a bill has been introduced for the admission of Washington Territory as a State. The House committee struck out from the post-office appropriation bill the franking privilege amendment inserted by the Senate. The committee on agriculture have reported an original bill to constitute the department of agriculture an executive department. The House naval committee favors the appropriation of $2,500,000 to complete the unfinished monitors. The House has passed the anti-Chinese bill, unamended...
...must have struck many a man with a taste for the study of human eccentricities that here in our midst was a fecund source for the most varied work...
...crew was severly hurt yesterday at the boat-house by being struck on the head by the prow of a barge...
...practical experience. The essence of cooperation is cooperation, and the secret of success is concentration. Therefore, if cooperation at Harvard is to look for any success at all, all efforts towards it should be concentrated for the success of one experiment in the matter. No harder blow could be struck at the prospects of a cooperative society at Harvard than the failure of her cooperative dining association; for it would seem a most useless waste of enthusiasm to attempt success in one, where failure had resulted in another. This for the reason that the essence of cooperation is cooperation...
...hundred and twenty ring spinners employed in the Pacific Mills at Lawrence struck yesterday, because of a reduction in wages. 64,000 spindles were silenced. The strikers were receiving 95 cents a day, and were asked to work for 85 cents...