Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scratch races in the fall and a sculling match in the spring. Though the first are usually well attended and quite interesting, they afford no experience in rowing and are not thought of a week before or a week after the event. The sculling race excites no interest whatever except to the participants and half a dozen lookers...
...without a careful estimate of the Semitic element. The significance of Semitic religious ideas is familiar to us; however we may explain it, the fact remains remarkable that the three monotheistic religions of the world, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, are of Semitic origin and that they today (if we except Confucianism in China). control the progressive nations of the earth. To understand the beginnings of Greek art we must go in part to Babylonia and Assyria. Our alphabet came from a Semitic community. The Phoenicians were the intermediaries between the peoples of the ancient world, the founders of ocean commerce...
...machine every day and afterwards take a long run. There is some danger that it will be hard to get a boat to suit the crew; for a great deal of the weight will be toward the stern. There seems to be no good stroke at hand except Goddard who weighs 180 pounds. It is likely that another very heavy man will row No. 6, so that there will be room for the boat builder to use his skill in trimming the boat. The stroke will be modified a little in theory this year and a great deal in appearance...
...adequate reform can be accomplished except through the national government.- Speech of Henry Cabot Lodge. Congressional Record...
...West Indies, Hawaiian, Islands, Bulgaria, Japan, Panama, and France. Five hundred and thirty three students are from this state, 114 from other New England states, while 262 are from outside of New England and 17 of these are from foreign countries. The counties of this state are all represented except Dukes and Nantucket. Suffolk sends 197, Norfolk 436. Boston leads the cities and towns with 180, while twenty-five other towns send at least four. The average age of the entering class is 222.4 months against 223 5 months for last year's class...