Word: raided
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...Peru.Rumors have been circulated to the effect that the Harvard Observatory in Peru has been attacked and that injury has been done to the valuable instruments. Professor Pickering entertains strong hopes that these rumors are ill-founded, and that they will prove to have been started by the raid on the station situated at El Misti...
...raid has of course caused annoyance, both because of the loss of the instruments and because of the fear that similar raids will be made and thus compel the abandonment of the station. As it is the highest meteorological station in the world, such abandonment would be a heavy disaster...
...after-taste of the war series is found in a co-operative article by three authors called "A Romance of Morgan's Rough Riders." It descries the Northern raid of the rebel general (written by General Duke of his staff) his capture (written by a Unionist) his escape (by Captain Hines of his staff...
...yard. Besides the disgrace of the painted words themselves, the injury done to the statue of John Harvard and the buildings is great and perhaps irreparable. There have been some mischievous attacks on the statue before this, and some ungentlemanly incidents in previous celebrations, but but no student raid of modern times has been so outrageous as this...
...accounts of the temple at Epidauros are of a comparatively late date, and come mainly from Liny, Strabo and Pausanias. Sulla plundered it in 87 B. C., to get money to pay his soldiers, and the temple never entirely recovered from his raid, although in the second century of our era enjoyed the favor of Antoninus Pius, who built baths within its precincts. After that the darkness of the middle ages settled upon Epidauros, and we do not hear of it again until the latter part of the last century, when it was visited first by Richard Chandler, and afterwards...