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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...resting on his left arm. The third represents a lady, extremely beautiful, whose right arm is lying gracefully upon her lap. Like the sitting figure on an inferior funeral bas-relief now in the Central Museum of Athens, she is represented in the act of raising delicately from her breast the frail fabric in which she is enveloped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excavations of the American School at Athens. | 3/27/1888 | See Source »

...condition of Captain Holden yesterday was much the same as Saturday. He suffers but little pain and the physicians say that his symptons are favorable for a safe recovery. The in jury to his breast bone will prevent his playing foot-ball again this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/14/1887 | See Source »

...depth of the chest is marked, dropping, as it does, from the 80 per cent. to the 5 per cent. class. It is attributable to an inward curve of the spine, between the shoulder blades, and a depression of the lower part of the sternum, or breast bone. There has been considerable compensation, as evidenced by the size of the chest and the lateral prominence of the ribs, but it will be observed that the breathing capacity, although higher than we should expect from the depth of the chest, is still lower than it should be. The depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Sargent's New System of Measurements. | 10/28/1887 | See Source »

...freshman nine have just received their new uniforms and will wear them for the first time in the game with the Rovers to-morrow. They consist of hats and blazers of broad crimson and white stripes, white jerseys with a crimson '90 worked in the breast, and stockings and belt of crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 4/22/1887 | See Source »

...Kilburn Town Hall on Friday evening. It is taken from the French, is dated 1817, and is really a duel of words and stratagems between the advocate, Malesherbes, and the Baroness De Mergis, a lady who has piqued him by raising false hopes as regards love within his legal breast. She wishes to marry her son to Helene, daughter of the Marquis De la Tour, whose estates had been confiscated and bestowed on the father of Barnard Dubois. This young gentlemen is supposed to be dead, but he returns to claim his property, incited thereto by the rejected Malesherbes. Bernard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

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