Word: war
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interclass tug-of-war contests at Columbia took place last evening...
Columbia will hold a class championship tug-of-war contest just before Christmas...
...friends he was enabled to continue his literary work. Then the professorship of history at Jena put him on a firm financial standing and allowed him to marry, yet he still continued his writing which resulted in the production of the Revolt of the Spanish Netherlands, the Thirty years War and many others...
...Persian invasion marked a great period in the art of sculpturing the monuments, as well as in many other things. The style became freer, and the designs more complicated and interesting. There is, however, a great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has never been satisfactorily explained. When they became more frequent again, the monuments exhibit a great variety of subjects. A favorite one is the dead man reclining on a couch, surrounded by his friends who make him offerings. The class of representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave...
...from the symposia of Xenenhon and Plato we are enabled to gain some idea of his face with its rolling lips and peculiar nose. Socrates was born in 464 or 465 B. C. and died in 399. His life was contemporaneous with the age of Pericles and the Peloponnesian war, and it was in this war that he showed his sturdy constitution which enabled him to endure hardships and even excesses without detriment...