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...good enough, go up six places in a year in each series of races. Except the top boat of the first division, the Head of the River, top boats of divisions row again the same day as bottom boats of the divisions above them. In this way the gap between divisions is bridged...
...England, a plot of ground was discovered in London near Fleet Street, that had never been built on. Diggers unearthed "15 feet of solid history," relics dating from the Paleolithic period (with a gap from Saxon times to the 13th Century) to the present. ¶Workmen digging for foundations for the new Bank of England building turned up the leather soles of Roman women's shoes. Newspaper stories were written to the effect that styles have changed little...
Faculty Scholarships were awarded to Herman Adelbert Bryant, of Petersham; Arthur Francis Chaisson, of St. John, New Brunswick; Edmund Cortez, of Wind Gap, Pennsylvania; Giovanni Ippolito Giardini, of New Castle, Pensylvania, and Roger Wellington Holmes, of Brooklyn, New York...
...which had driven them from their homes. They had been picked up by the Government launch Pelican, which lay just outside the Knowlton's Point levee, waiting to transfer them to the steamer Wabash, approaching from up the river. Suddenly the levee broke. Pent waters boiled through the gap, sweeping the Pelican with them. Caught in the channel formed by the break, the Pelican twisted, spun, sank. All on board were drowned...
...appeal to the King's conscience out of which our present system of Equity has grown. Even if such a commission should rec commend a pardon it would not over-whelm or discredit the finding of the Court. The commission would, like the Chancellor's Court, fill in a gap which the common law has left open. The creation of a Court of Chancery has not exhausted the power of the Sovereign to do justice in any case in which it is obvious that the existing legal and equitable procedure is inadequate. Nor would the appointment of such a commission...