Word: central
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...length, and 81 feet at its greatest width. It is as long as the Memorial Dining-Hall, and considerably wider. On the right and left sides of this mammoth gymnasium, at a distance of 18 feet from the walls, are placed twelve columns that support the timbers of the central roof. The knees which sustain the gallery spring from these pillars at a point about 12 feet from the floor. Thus, making allowance for the gallery, we have a clear space 30 by 100 feet in the centre of the hall open to the rafters...
...upon "Milan and Venice," "Rome," and "Cairo the Magnificent," on ensuing Mondays. These lectures, which are profusely illustrated by large stereopticon views, are highly spoken of by the press and competent critics. Season tickets $100, and single tickets 30 cents, at Sever's and at A. R. Bayley's, Central Square...
...Wales, over the central case, - was he a librarian...
...books as they arrive in the Library are now placed in a bookcase on the central desk of the Reading-Room instead of being allowed to lie promiscuously scattered on the table, as heretofore...
...hear that initiatory steps have been taken in Boston for the formation of an Alpine Club, whose central field of labor will be the White Mountains. Among the benefits to be derived from organized effort, it was suggested that much might be done in determining the altitudes and positions of various mountains, ascertaining facts relating to the animals and fauna of the high regions, in tracing glacial action, in arriving at some definite results in regard to the nomenclature of mountains where the same eminences were known by different names or one or more mountains by the same name...