Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta and Place were especially interested in the Assyrian architecture and sculpture, and much of our knowledge of these arts is due to them. De Sarzec in 1887 dug up near the Persian Gulf some statues in the round, cut in hard, highly polished stone. De Clecq made a study of the Assyrian seals, and a volume of beautiful engravings of these cylinders has been published by the French government. Pierrot and Chipiez's book on Assyrian art is valuable, especially for restorations...
...Smith; "Sweet Marjory," by Sara Beaumont Kennedy; "Modern Snipe," by T. S. Van Dyke; "Shooting at Swatow," by A. B. Hoff; "The Wizard of the Cascade;" by S. C. Kendall; "Hunting the California Lion," by L. D. Rees; "A Thread of Mystery," by Louise D. Mitchell; "Cruising on the Gulf;" "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Cycling in Mid-Atlantic," by O. Howarth; "Paddling a Pipanti in Honduras," by E. W. Perry; "About the Balearics," by Chas. Edwards; "Rabbiting," by H. Rave; "The New Hampshire National Guard," by G. H. Moses, and the usual editorials...
Vicksburg was especially strong, the Gibralter of America. Impregnable on the river front, with its steep descent, it was protected by a maze of swamps on the north and rough coutry everywhere else. The strong outposts, Haines's Bluff, and Grand Gulf, above and below well guarded its flanks...
...Catholic Club held a meeting last night in the Fogg Art Musem at which Rev. Father O'Callaghan delivered an address on Liberalism and Liberality. He spoke of the wide gulf between these two words and snowed how the Catholics took Liberality and not Liberalism as their motto. Here at Harvard truth has only to prove itself to be believed, and if shallow opinions have been believed it is only because they have been presented to us under the garb of truth...
...died in his effort to bring to Athens the news of the Persian defeat. The bicycle races will be contested on the Phaleric plan half way between the city and the seashore, the swimming and rowing races in the roadstead of Phaleron, and the yacht races in the Saronic Gulf. There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek history, and a series of representations of dramatic masterpieces, beginning with a tragedy by Sophocles and ending with Wagner's "Lohengrin," and a special Olympic hymn by a modern...