Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dohm of Princeton won the running broad jump, 21 feet 8 in. Running high jump, scratch, won by G. R. Fearing, Harvard, 5 ft. 8 1-2 in. Half mile run, handicap, won by W. H. Wright, Harvard (25 yards), time 1m. 56 sec. In the tug-of-war, Columbia beat Berkeley by three inches...
...events are the same as the Mott Haven events, with the exception of the one-mile run, the low hurdles, and the tug-of-war; the bicycle race is one mile, and the hammer only twelve pounds in weight. Throwing the base ball is also an event. Since 1886 the year in which the Association was founded, Hopkinson's has won once, Roxbury Latin twice, and Worcester won last year. This year the contest will be close, with the chances slightly in favor of Roxbury Latin. The association was organized in 1889 by graduates of the various schools, chiefly Harvard...
...war (650 lbs. limit) -W. J. Lowe, C. W. Leavenworth, J. P. Lloyd, C. Dussler, Yale...
...that the bill now occupies over sixty pages; that it discriminates between certain industries Several arguments are given why we should have Protection: That it affords an easy way of collecting revenue. Although this is true to a certain extent, yet if we should become engaged in a foreign war we would lose our foreign trade and therefore our revenue also. Second, that this tax is paid by foreigners. Not so; it is paid by the consumer at home. Third, that it benefits the farmer. Now the duty amounts to a virtual bounty, and this bounty is paid in part...
...roaring stream of death. This river was more terrible than could ever be described by mortal power, and the monsters that filled the waters were all the more dreadful from being so vaguely described in the Eddic poems. Within Walhalla reigned Odin, the god of wind and war, and his subjects were the soulds of warriors who had perished in battle. No men who died peaceably in bed could expect to have their souls mount to Walhalla, the palace of happiness, where the warrior's life was so idealized as to be a continual round of feasting and revelry...