Word: isthmus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...taken" for the sake of the world's commerce, if incidentally for the specific military and commercial advantage of the taker. Much criticism was heaped upon Mr. Roosevelt for his procedure, but he had to decide whether we would take possession of the ends of the railroad on the Isthmus and keep the traffic clear, or whether we would stand back and let those Southern gentlemen cut each others' throats for an indefinite time and destroy whatever, remnant of our property and our interests we had there. Roosevelt had to do exactly as he did, or the only alternative would...
...exhibit which the University School of Landscape Architecture has had at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco has been transferred, at the request of the Federal Government, to the exhibition on the Isthmus, for 100 days from January 1, 1916. This exhibit was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition in San Francisco...
...meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society will be held in Room 110, of Pierce Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. At this meeting there will be a lecture on "Methods and Results of Sanitation on the Isthmus of Panama." It will be given by Mr. J. T. B. Bowles, who for some time has been the Physiologist in charge of Water Supplies and Filtration Plants for the Isthmian Canal Commission. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon and will be open to the public...
...Harvard Engineering Society. Lecture (illustrated) on "Methods and Results of Sanitation on the Isthmus of Panama," by Mr. James T. B. Bowels of the Isthmian Canal Commission, in Pierce...
...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 efficiency, both alike raised to the highest standard...