Word: midway
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...disregarded. The commercial and naval advantages can be secured only by annexation. It would give stability of government to Hawaii and the consequent industrial expansion would increase trade with the United States. A base of supplies is needed to make our navy efficient in the Pacific. For this purpose, Midway Island, 1200 miles west of Honolulu, was annexed in 1867, but owing to poor harbor facilities was abandoned. The right of the United States to maintain a coaling station in Pearl Harbor is coexistent only with the treaty which may be abrogated by either party on twelve months'notice...
...away well and passing the boathouse were well together. Passing the second bridge the force of the wind was felt and the work of the crew suffered accordingly. After shooting the Longwood bridge into the basin the seas began to wash into the boat, and at a point about midway between the Harvard Bridge and the Union Boat Club the barge filled with water and the crew were obliged to swim to the launch. The men were taken immediately to the Union house and driven out to Cambridge from there in carriages. The launch then returned to the submerged barge...
Plato believed in one immutable being and self-existant ideas. His position is one of complete and extreme realism, wherein he differs from Socrates, whose standpoint was that of a nominalist, and from Aristotle who held views midway between realism and nominalism...
...first main advantage to be gained by bimetallism is the establishment of an approximate par of exchange between the gold-using and the silver-using nations. The group of nations which stand midway between these two, bind them together by the so-called "bimetallic link," which is invaluable in steadying trade...
...drop-kicking, Fairchild was plainly superior to the Yale backs. His first was a beautiful try for a goal from the field, the ball striking the cross-bar squarely; the second was blocked, but the third went over the cross-bar midway between the posts...