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Statisticans and their followers will be interested to learn that the University team outweighs the visitors. The figures for the line give an average of 187 pounds for the Harvard forward wall and 178 for the Vermont bulwark. The advantage in the backfield is by a margin of 174 to 161, while the average team weights are 182 and 172. The gross weight of the Harvard team is one ton on the hoof; the Vermonters aggregate is 110 pounds less
Under the Pacific Ocean the sea bed moved. Came a great rumble. A violent displacement sent huge rushes of water to the surface and an enormous wall of green sea arose from the depths to career with devastating force upon the Japanese island of Kiushiu, south of the main island of Hondo, upon which is situate Tokyo, capital city...
Then the spent tidal wave receded. Miles of sea wall, some of it only recently constructed, crumbled as the gurgling sea sucked it to its doom...
...just after the new United States of America had fairly started on its history, stockbrokers met under a buttonwood tree at No. 68 Wall St. When the weather was good they swapped securities and stories and breathed the fresh air from New York Harbor. When it was bad they met in nearby coffee taverns. By 1817 public participation in corporate enterprises had grown to the point where the brokers found it expedient to rent the front room on the second floor of the house of one George F. Vaupell at No. 40 Wall St. It cost $200 but this included...
Perhaps Master Vaupell did not sweep conscientiously, because subsequent records show the New York Stock Exchange wandering the Wall St. district, occupying now a tavern hall, another time a hay loft or a rented room, until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail...