Word: areas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years ago, I think it was, Messrs. Henry and Frank Higginson conceived an admirable method of securing a large tract of land just outside on the thickly built districts of Boston, about twenty acres in area, for the purpose of putting there a group of medical buildings at some day in the future...
...model, a solid piece of plaster thirty feet in circumference, is the largest of the kind yet produced in this country and by far the most accurate. The area represented is nearly five hundred square miles, embracing the territory within a radius of twelve miles from Boston...
...Railroading (Engineering 4a, 4c, and 4d) will be given hereafter entirely in the summer. The land is well located within a few miles of Centre Harbor, which will be the Post Office address. It is especially well adapted for topographic work of any kind and for hydrographic survey. The area is about 1 1-2 miles of lake front on the farm. The lake itself, about eight miles in length by two in width, is situated in a spur of the White Mountains, and contains a large number of islands...
...star is a very prominent one now and its position can be easily described: It can be seen at about seven or eight in the evening by looking overhead at the brighest star in the zenith and following with the eye about one quarter of the area from that star to the western horizon. The distinguishing points are that it is very bright and is almost exactly in the centre of a triangle of three other stars. More specifically--following along that part of the Fence running from the Co-operative to Massachusetts--if one stands by the first post...
...Eastern and Aegaean shores of the Mediterranean, including Asia Minor, that witnessed the earliest development of what may be called a Western civilization. In the Western part of this East-Mediterranean area, Mr. Arthur Evans in 1894 found some records of an ancient Western system of writing, an outgrowth of the early savage pictograph made in all parts of the Mediterranean district by primitive mankind. He found on Cretan engraved stones a system of Cretan pictographs corresponding to the Hittite pictograph. He also found a system of Cretan linear signs analogous to the Capriote characters. We can approximately make...