Word: downing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot...
The competition for first base has narrowed down to Kendall and J. D. Clark. Clark is superior in batting, but Kendall's fielding is the more brilliant. Out-door work, however, will form the only true basis on which to determine the relative value of the two men.
The new launch was yesterday afternoon taken a short distance down the harbor by Mr. Lawley on a trial trip. She was not pushed for speed, but ran smoothly and well until the tail-head guide of the low pressure cylinder broke and obliged her to return to the yard...
Jordan, however, which is losing many of its current students to graduation, is trying actively to recruit new residents, Cabranes-Grant says. "The population is obviously down from the all-time high," he says.
This subject may be summed up by the statement that thirty years have practically seen the establishment of definite systems of physical training and a great improvement in the general physical welfare of students; that during this period out-door sports have, like the swing of a pendulum, carried the...