Word: trunk
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Reduced rates of a fare and one-third, on the certificate plan, have been secured from the Trunk Line Association, the New England Passenger Association. The Central Passenger Association and the Eastern Canadian Passenger Association. In applying for certificates from ticket agents, mention the Archaelogical Institute of America instead of the American Folk-Lore Society. In consulting time tables it should be remembered that East Ithaca is the Ithaca station of the Elmira and Cortland branch of the Le high Valley Railroad. Cars meet all trains at this station, and all cars pass the hotels...
...dynamometer is attached to a movable foot-rest, instead of, as formerly, to the floor. This prevents the possibility of raising the dynamometer needle by a sudden jerk. In tests 6 and 7 the legs must be kept straight and on a line with the trunk and no swaying is allowed...
...strength and capacity of the lungs, and on the ability to dip and chin. The new system is based on the following series of exercises: Lying down and rising to a sitting posture, chinning, dipping while resting on the knees, bending of knees to a squatting posture, bending of trunk forward, and rising on toes and heels...
...University is considering the advisability of installing a system of telephones between the different departments, with a central office at University Hall, to be connected with the Cambridge central office and at least six other trunk line in Boston. A telephone will be put in the new lodge on Massachusetts avenue. The New England Telephone Company will probably be given permission to install long distance telephones in some of the College dormitories this spring. The usual charge will be made for the use of them...
...situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able...