Word: rectangular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...grave was brick-lined, and roofed over with wooden logs or slabs of white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular stone structure with sloping sides. In its centre was a deep shaft into which was lowered the corpse, and then the hole was filled in with sand and debris. A second chamber, isolated in the wall of the mastaba, contained statues of the decreased, and here was supposed to well...
...first. These towers, which are of simple Tuscan architecture, will contain a series of short flights of stairs rising from the ground and connecting both the middle and upper promenades of the main structure. The ground and middle corridors will have arched windows, while the top corridor will have rectangular openings leading out upon a Tuscan balcony. The roof of the upper promenade will be continued to form the roofs of the towers. It will be of concrete and will be supported by columns, 14 feet high, resting on pedestals which are already built in the parapets between the upper...
...dates on which the plays will be given are Monday and Tuesday, morning and afternoon, of Class Day week. The rectangular space, in the rear of Sever Hall will be used again...
...dormitory to be erected on Mifflin Place, opposite Craigie Hall, on Mt. Auburn street, will begin the first of next week. The building which is designed by Nathan Douglas will be built by the owner, Mr. Henry Green, and will be a four story brick edifice, surrounding a rectangular court 50 by 20 feet. It will contain thirty suites, each fitted with a bath, fire-place, electric lights, and telephone. The basement will contain a billiard room and cafe and will be connected with Eliot Hall, which is now nearly completed on Mifflin Place, by an underground passageway. The building...
...reclining effigies of the dead and four with pyramidal covers. Of these only two were available. One representing a man is in Philadelphia and the other of a woman wearing a peplum is the one given to Harvard. It bears an inscription on its face. The second chamber was rectangular in shape and was probably used to lower the sarcophagus. In this chamber were nine sarcophagi of stone and one of terracotta. This last is in the Free Museum of Science and Art of the University of Pennsylvania. The sarcophagi are of the third or second century...