Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...room is far better than anything of the kind in the Gymnasium. Opposite this are two "Fives Courts" for hand ball. They are of a good size and extend to the top of the building, thus giving the advantage of a sky light. The floors are of cement and slope down, making the play lively. These courts are a great addition and have but one fault, which, however, is a great one. The walls are so constructed that it is almost impossible for one man to hear another unless he talks in a whisper. Every noise seems lost...
...site of the theatre of Dionysus at Athens remained unknown until a recent date, and the excavations which have given us most of our present knowledge of it were made by German archaeologists. The theatre is now known to have been just south of the Acropolis and the slope of this eminence made a natural amphitheatre...
...theatre consists of three main parts: the auditorium, the orchestra, and the stage buildings. The seats for the spectators covered the slope of the hill, in semicircular rows. Aisles divided the auditorium into thirteen wedges and two-thirds of the distance to the top was a semi-circular passageway or "Diazoma." The upper rows of seats were hewn from the stone of the hillside, the lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra...
...slides, to the seracs, crevasses, dirt bands, and moraines, the latter being tinted according to the rocks from which they are derived. Below the foot of the glacier, there are several abandoned moraines, one of which encloses a small lake. The rock ledges down the valley and on its slopes for a certain height above the ice are rounded and striated with surprising verisimilitude, indicating the former extent of the glacier. The model of the torrent illustrates the early stages of valley growth, when the little head water branch streams are gnawing backwards with great rapidity into the plateau country...
...been granted to Americans. There remains, therefore, only the financial side of the question to be considered. The Greek government stipulated of course that full indemnification be made to all inhabitants whom the excavators might disturb. As a matter of fact, the site of ancient Delphi on the southern slope of Mount Parnassus is at present entirely covered by the village of Castri. It will be necessary to buy this village out entire before beginning the work, and for this purpose $80,000 is needed by the first of June. The American Archaeological Institute has the matter of raising...