Word: proper
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delegates from Harvard and Yale met in New York to decide where the Harvard-Yale football game shall be played next fall. Harvard was represented by Cumnock, Butler, and Lee; Yale, by Mr. Walter Camp, '80, and Rhodes, '91. It was decided to hold the game in Springfield, if proper grounds can be obtained and the necessary railroad arrangements made...
...proper subject for legislation (a) for the protection of the state and the citizens-Cong. Globe, Vol. 29, first session, 33d Congress, p. 1135; (b) it is not a sumptuary law-Blair, Temperance Movement, p. 337; (c) and does not infringe on personal liberty-Lees, Liquor Traffic, p. 91; (d) It is proper, also, for the constitution-U. S. Supreme Courts Reports, Curtis, 16, p. 519; Our Day, 1, pp. 11; Journal of Social Science...
...effort will be made to have the city of Boston put the playgrounds in Franklin Park in proper condition so that the Interscholastic baseball teams may play there...
...found the key, by applying a formula of the old Pehlevi inscriptions to the shorter cuneiform inscriptions from Persepolis. Grotfeend made out several of the letters accurately and several others proximately, but his material was too limited for him to do much more than read a few proper names in the inscriptions. Colonel (now Sir) Henry Rawlinson, a young English officer, while stationed in Persia in 1835, was attracted to the study of the inscriptions. He states that his work was altogether independent of Grotefend and other European scholars. He used a method similar to that of Grotefend and reached...
...first lecture upon "Babylonian Books." The first part of the lecture was taken up with an account of the attempts that have been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which...