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...Dean's wide range of interests was shown in his writings. Three recent works, "The Individual", "The Citizen" and "The Neighbor", appear to have been written with one general purpose, that of answering many questions that arise in the minds of each intelligent member of society, concerning his relation to his surroundings. Not more than three years ago he published "Elizabeth of England", a drama in five acts, each in a separate volume, written in blank verse. He wrote this to disprove the statement so often made that prolonged scientific study unfits a man for literary activity. He also wrote...
...Smith has had wide experience in hunting big game, particularly tigers, which he has hunted in India, Persia, Corea, China, and Java...
...lower side of the dam there will be a roadway 85 feet wide, and on the upper side a park or embankment of 6 3-4 acres. There will also be an esplanade constructed by the City of Boston, extending from Charles Bank park to Charlesgate East, making a drive and walks in the rear of Brimmer and Beacon streets. On the Cambridge side an embankment park, for which the land has already been purchased, will come nearly to the dam. The contract calls for the completion of the work by July...
...yards; masonry, 43,825 cubic yards; filling, 390,000 cubic yards; piling, 470,000 linear feet; pine lumber, 235,000 feet; spruce lumber, 550,000 feet; riff raff, 9, 700 tons. There will be two locks in the dam, the larger being 350 feet in length and 45 feet wide, and of sufficient depth to allow a vessel drawing 16 feet of water to pass through at low tide. The smaller lock will be suitable for launches and row boats. Eight sluices will be provided, and in emergencies the smaller lock will be used as a flood-sluice for letting...
...formation of a neutral zone between the two teams, as wide as the ball is long, will tend to keep the teams far enough apart to enable the officials to distinctly see every motion of every man in the line, and the fact that the minute a player puts any part of his body into this neutral zone he may be penalized for offside play will do away with much of the rough contact now possible in the line of scrimmage...