Word: chief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...police commissioner and chief of police of New Haven are each equipped with very handsomely grained clubs turned out of a post from the old Yale fence...
...HOFFMANN, Secretary.SYMPHONY CONCERT USHERS are reminded that the fourth concert will be given this (Thursday) evening. In case of unavoidable absence, substitutes must be sent provided with tickets and the chief usher notified before 5 p. m. Doors open at 7.15. Be prompt...
...nearer the sea. The city is noted for a group of buildings surrounding the Duomo, or cathedral, which dates from the eleventh century. In this church is the identical lamp from whose movements Galileo deduced the laws of the pendulum. The baptistry is a very handsome building, but the chief interest centers in the well known "Leaning Tower," from whose summit Galileo made his experiments on falling bodies. The attitude of this tower is probably due to the insufficient foundations laid by the builders, which caused it to settle while in process of construction. Sienna, the other principal city...
...Elsworth, William D. Ely, Austin Isham and Albert Todd, jumors; Charles Buck, Aaron L. Chapin, Thomas M. Day, Thomas Dutton, John Cotton Mather, John P. Putnam, Luther Scarborough, John W. Seymour and Edmund Terry, sophomores; and Charles F. Smith, freshman. Other 'boys' who were then in college were Chief Justice Waite, Senator Evarts, Professors Lyman and Silliman, the Hon. Henry C. Deming, John Hooker...
...months thereafter, and thus to complete it within two years, the entire work making six volumes with about 6,500 pages. For seven years the labor on this important work has gone forward under the direction of Professor William D. Whitney, of Yale, who has been the editor in chief of the enterprise, and for the past two years the printers have been engaged in typesetting in order that the actual time of publication might not extend over too long a period...