Word: strip
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...limits named which is privately owned, and that is the Brighton abattoir. The only use which this company makes of the river is for the transportation of coal at very infrequent intervals. Furthermore, to conform with the War Department's stipulation it would be necessary only to procure a strip of land, on the river bank as has been done in Cambridge in front of the Stillman Infirmary and not to buy out or move the abattoir...
...Corporation until February 1, to enable him to make a study of some of the conditions of the South. He will go first to Galveston and Houston, Texas, and make first-hand investigations into the governments by commission there; and will then work eastward to Louisiana and though the strip of rural country running through southern Mississippi, Alabama, and eastern North Carolina, and South Caroline. His purpose is to see the rural South away from the railroads and other means of communication with the outside world...
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...
...elaborately designed chess table, presented to the Union by Mr. Isaac Leopold Rice of New York, has been placed recently in the Game Room. The table is of quartered oak with a solid base, supporting on two stout columns an oblong top. The playing board, bordered by a narrow strip of rosewood, is inlaid with black and white squares. The board is surrounded by 25 small fancy metal shields on which will be engraved the names of future winners of the University championship...
...young men were deeply interested in the science of the earth as that they were attracted by the man who told them about it. His extraordinary individuality was felt there as it was everywhere else. Most professors are known chiefly through the subject that they study and teach: strip them of that and, like kings without their robes, they look just like plain men; but with Shaler it was his subject that was known through him; leave off his geology and he was still a marked man, a striking figure, the centre of every group he joined...