Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this level a platform with a railing will surround the drum of the dome, which will be of classic proportions, and whose summit will be 136 feet above the upper terrace and 152 feet above One Hundred and Sixteenth street, at the main entrance to the grounds...
...fourteen or less, a boy's place is at home. The influences which surround him should be home influences. The formation of his character can not safely be trusted to any one less interested in him or less intimate with him than his parents; least of all can it be left to his own real childishness under the excitement of a new life. And in this character the time has not come for the development of a vigorous independence; disregard of authority follows it too closely in young people. What the boy wants, and what he can best...
...regards transportation, not only ships but all other methods of conveyance follow the courses allowed them by the geological formations which surround them. This is especially well illustrated by the frequency with which the railroads follow the course of the streams. And as the settlement and growth of a country depends to a great extent on transportation, so transportation depends entirely on the geological features of the country...
...band. Portions of fairyland have been brought along with them, so that every one can see precisely how the Brownies live, what they do from day to day, how they overcome trouble, and it will be especially interesting to note these first authentic views of real fairyland that will surround them...
...Thomas D. Lockwood, of the American Bell Telephone Co., will deliver an address under the auspices of the Electric Club, on "The progressive Evolution of the Telephone System of Today." The address, generally, will deal with the tendency shown by great advances in applied electricity to beget and surround themselves by numerous subsidiary appliances-as illustrated by the growth of telephonic communication...