Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...concrete tank is now completed. It is sixty three feet long and twenty six feet wide, rectangular in shape and with rounded corners. The sliding seats are to be placed in a rectangular boat, similar in general construction to an ordinary eight, which will be supported from the bottom of the tank by metal braces, skeleton underwork and water proof compartments, through which the returning current of water will pass. On either side of the boat will be a wooden platform four feet in breadth which will serve as a support for men getting in and out of the boat...
...career as a public man. In 1877, 1878 and 1879 he was a member of the Common Council, and was a Representative in the Massachusetts House from 1882 to 1884. In spite of his outside duties, he was one of the most hardworking members of the House. His enthusiastic support of Grover Cleveland in the Blaine campaign was consistent with his independence and fearlessness...
...period of five years, for which I was at first quite unable to account. On thinking the matter over more carefully, however, I came to the conclusion that it was due to two causes, possibly three; first, the constant efforts of other eastern colleges to obtain fuller support from the west and south; second, Harvard's conservative policy in this respect; and, of less importance, the comparatively short Christmas recess granted to Harvard undergraduates...
...question for the debate is, "Resolved that the United States should use every means to maintain the integrity of the Chinese Empire. The Senior Senate will support the negative...
...lips-Exeter this evening at Exeter on the same question as that of the Harvard-Yale debate: "Resolved, That the permanent retention of the Phillipine Islands by the United States is desirable." The Freshman team, composed of G. P. Adams, A. A. Ballantine and J. W. Scott, will support the negative side of the question. J. Daniels is alternate. The Exeter team is made up as follows: J. F. Dore, G. A. King, C. S. Norton and S. L. Wellhouse, alternate...