Word: strip
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...athletic association. The fence which will run along the speedway for the distance of a mile is now in course of construction and will be of the same design as the fence on North Harvard street. It will be erected by the Metropolitan Park Commission in exchange for a strip of land of forty-six acres, upon which the speedway has been made. In addition to these improvements, the new University Boat House is now building...
...astronomical work every photographic plate must be tested for sensitiveness. Mr. Ring, assistant at the Observatory, has found the shape which an aperture must have in order to give a shaded area on each plate that will vary in intensity in arithmetical ratio. By means of a narrow strip on each plate, varying from a very light shade to one of considerable darkness, the magnitude of the stars photographed may be measured with accuracy...
...Dodge began his lecture by a consideration of the effect of the geology of the United States on its agriculture. Our ancestors, when the Atlantic strip stretching from Maine to Florida was first discovered, settled where the agricultural conditions were good. Owing to the barrier formed by the Appalachian Mountains, the early colonists remained east of these mountains until this area was thickly settled. The unity of interests, brought about by this close association of the colonies, made possible a successful revolution against the mother-country. As the pressure increased within this narrow strip of land, emigration pushed out through...
...many in the University already know, a portion of the Soldiers Field has been prepared for secret practice of the eleven. A fence eight feet high on three sides, and twelve on the Cambridge side, has been built about a levelled space, large enough to allow a strip of ground fifteen feet wide outside of each boundery. Every crack and hole in the fence is to be filled, so that it will be impossible to see from without. The field will be marked out before Thursday when practice there will begin. Until late in the season however, the eleven will...
Mayor Grant has assured President Low of Columbia of the favorable attitude of the city to the amendment of Senator Plunkett's bill, by which the Blooming-dale property will be kept free from streets and a strip ceded to the city to widen 120th street...