The International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress During the Year 1898-1902, Volume 4Dodd, Mead, 1902 |
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... feet long , equipped with a 3 horse - power steam engine weighing 462 pounds , and attained an independent speed of 6.71 miles an hour . In 1872 Dupuy de Lôme ascended in a balloon 118 feet long and attained a speed of 6.26 miles an ...
... feet long , equipped with a 3 horse - power steam engine weighing 462 pounds , and attained an independent speed of 6.71 miles an hour . In 1872 Dupuy de Lôme ascended in a balloon 118 feet long and attained a speed of 6.26 miles an ...
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... feet long and 9 feet in its greatest diameter . In place of the bamboo stiffening pole of No. 3 , the inventor substituted a long , slender framework to which the propelling and controlling machinery was attached and on which the ...
... feet long and 9 feet in its greatest diameter . In place of the bamboo stiffening pole of No. 3 , the inventor substituted a long , slender framework to which the propelling and controlling machinery was attached and on which the ...
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... feet , the amount thus cut represents but a small fraction of the amount of wood used in the territory each year . Nearly every board that is taken to western Alaska from Yakutat to Port Barrow is shipped from Puget Sound or California ...
... feet , the amount thus cut represents but a small fraction of the amount of wood used in the territory each year . Nearly every board that is taken to western Alaska from Yakutat to Port Barrow is shipped from Puget Sound or California ...
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... feet long , 33 feet beam and 16 feet draft . She is fortified with bulkheads and beams to resist ice - pressures , and is sheathed with greenheart , protected at the bow with metal plates . Her triple - expansion engines develop 570 ...
... feet long , 33 feet beam and 16 feet draft . She is fortified with bulkheads and beams to resist ice - pressures , and is sheathed with greenheart , protected at the bow with metal plates . Her triple - expansion engines develop 570 ...
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... feet long , 35 feet beam , and draws 16 feet ; she displaces 450 tons . She is a three - masted schooner , fitted with triple - expansion engines which give her a speed of seven knots . Her lines are somewhat like those of the Fram ...
... feet long , 35 feet beam , and draws 16 feet ; she displaces 450 tons . She is a three - masted schooner , fitted with triple - expansion engines which give her a speed of seven knots . Her lines are somewhat like those of the Fram ...
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Page 229 - That the government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said island.
Page 229 - Joint Resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 230 - Cuba, the title thereto being left to future adjustment by treaty. 7. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof , as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points, to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. 8. That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions...
Page 229 - That the Government of Cuba consents that the United )'!• ^ ^ States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate „. ; for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty...
Page 183 - Rico with any regard to the man's partisan affiliations or services, with any regard to the political, social, or personal influence which he may have at his command...
Page 229 - III. That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 229 - II. That said government shall not assume or contract any public debt, to pay the interest upon which, and to make reasonable sinking fund provision for the ultimate discharge of which, the ordinary revenues of the island, after defraying the current expenses of government shall be inadequate.
Page 466 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must "not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 229 - ... 5. That the government of Cuba will execute, and as far as necessary extend, the plans already devised or other plans to be mutually agreed upon, for the sanitation of the cities of the island, to the end that a recurrence of epidemic and infectious diseases may be prevented thereby assuring protection to the people and commerce of Cuba, as well as to the commerce of the southern ports of the United States and the people residing therein. 6. That the Isle of Pines shall be omitted from the proposed...
Page 153 - To discover the exceptional man in every department of study whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.