Word: area
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...where there is so much government control over railroads, has found it impossible to prohibit pools and equalize rates at the same time. Whereas Germany employs a force of 8000 men to manage railroad matters, our bill intends that five commissioners should do all the work over a larger area. They may take such aids as a yearly appropriation of $100,000 will provide...
Very interesting was the account of the evidences that the Christian religion was made fun of and its personages caricatured. Nero's golden house covered an area of almost one square mile and contained the greatest wonders of art and nature...
...area of twenty-five and a half acres was covered by these public places...
...wreathed with evergreens and flowers, and pendants or streamers, of blue and white, radiated from the centre to the sides of the tent. The pavilion was erected on sloping ground, and the tables rose one above another in the form of an amphitheatre. On the lowest sides of the area, tables were placed on an elevated platform, for the President and Vice-Presidents of the day, and the eldest and most distinguished of the Alumni and their invited guests, to the number of one hundred. By this arrangement, every individual seated in the amphitheatre would face the table at which...
...Kebabian, of the class of '88, from Rodosto, Turkey, has invented an instrument for drawing spherical angles and figures of any degree of area. The device is a very simple one and a patent will probably he taken out. - Yale News...