Word: downs
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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"For instance, it is greatly to the credit of any nation, of any government, when it performs some vast undertaking which will last for many centuries and which adds perceptibly to the sum of achievements of mankind. Such an undertaking is the Panama Canal. Last spring, when in Europe, I...
"I speak of this tonight largely because when I was here last June at Commencement, in listening to the addresses by members of the graduating class in Sanders Theatre, I was very much struck by the address of a member of that class named Bishop, whose father has been one...
"Down on the Isthmus of Panama, good, well-meaning men, who could not keep their subordinates straight or get good work out of them, would have inflicted irreparable injury to the nation. Colonel Goethals and his associates represent that high type of applied morality which is composed of integrity and...
Early in the second half Hornblower scored two more goals, one on a pass from Pierce, the other on a pass from Blackall. With the score 4 to 1 against them the Boston players abandoned all thoughts of team-play. Clifford, Hicks and Winsor made several brilliant dashes down the...
The first communication printed this morning deserves comment. To begin with, it states that the old Council is "not yet officially dead." If failing to perpetuate itself within its constitutional limits, and this it certainly failed to do, does not constitute its official demise, what can? The majority of even...