Word: border
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...usually several trips with tents in the course of the year, when the members of the school visit many historical sites, and make the acquaintance of peasant and bedouin life. Occasionally there are adventures with the bedouin, as where the party of two years ago was robbed on the border of the Dead Sea. But travel is ordinarily safe in Palestine. The members of the school last year made many short trips, not requiring tents, and three of greater length with tents. These were to the southern end of the Dead Sea in company with the Dominican School of Jerusalem...
Starting at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, Mr. Moore travelled to the Turkish border, and penetrated into Macedonia under a government guard. Here he came across those bands of robbers who make a business of plundering and smuggling, dividing the spoils with the Turkish custom house officials...
...Montana, near the border of Nevada, is the Mohave Desert, including the Valley of Death, which lies 150 feet below sea level. Here are found giant cacti, below which innumerable rattlesnakes and lizards crawl in the alkali dust...
...lumber camps in the Adirondacks, in Grafton Country, New Hampshire, and in the Moosehead Lake region, Maine. The fourth-year men, accompanied by Professor A. Cary, have made a tour on foot starting from the Rangeley Lake region, Maine, and proceeding to Lake Megantic, just over the Canadian border, a distance of about 100 miles, and from there by rail to the lumbering region on the west side of Moosehead Lake. They are expected to return during the mid-year period...
...this tract is marshy, filling for a depth of from six to nine feet will be necessary. The size of this site is 40 acres, but adjoining are 20 acres more of vacant land which could probably be obtained if necessary. The Metropolitan Park Commission has planned eventually to border the site by an attractive park running along the shore of the Charles river, which will greatly increase the attractiveness of the location...