Word: area
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contains Babylonian-Assyrian seals and clay tablets, coins, photographs, manuscripts, and a selection of casts from the finest of the Semitic monuments in the various European museums. Of the manuscripts, only a few are exhibited in the railing case. They are Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew, and among the latter area roll of the Law and rolls of the Prophets. Some of them are from Arabia and contain a translation into Arabic in addition to the Hebrew text. The oldest of the manuscripts is a copy of the Gospels written...
...Second. Because such legislation will, if allowed to stand, check the healthy competition for places on foot-ball teams by restricting the area of competition, will thus decrease the present widespread interest in the game, detract largely from its character, and hamper its normal development as a university sport...
...endowed by Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss of N. Y. city, a native of Salisbury, with funds amounting to $200,000 in addition to the sum of $150,000, the cost of the buildings, and $25,000, the cost of the surrounding land, which has an area of seventy-five acres. The school buildings will have a frontage of five hundred feet, with a large three-story structure at the centre, flanked at either end with buildings for the masters, which will connect with the central structure by covered corridors...
George Pellew, a graduate of Harvard in the class of '80, met his death by a sad accident on the morning of Feb. 18. An inflammation of one eye had rendered his sight defective. While passing along West Thirty-fifth Street, he fell through an open gate into the area below and was instantly killed...
...justified in supposing that continental glaciers rest throughout the greater portion of their area, on a stratum of water kept in a liquid condition by the pressure of the superincumbent...