Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...picturesqueness,--the contestants decked out in gala attire, and the vast concourse of onlookers displaying ostentatiously their brilliant outing costumes. The umpire was at times whimsical and at the third inning called the game on account of dampness. But nothing daunted the two teams and they played on amid cataract and slough. At the end of the game the special delegates from the mathematical department declared the score to be 8 to 7 in favor of the Lampoons. The regular game will be played next week, and then, and then only, can a true estimate be made of the real...
...others in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The program will be as follows: "The Ballad of East and West," Kipling; Mrs. Malaprop, "The Rivals," Sheridan; "Wives in a Social Game," Anonymous; The Village Dressmaker. "Timothy's 'Quest," Kate Douglas Wiggin; "The Cataract of Lodore," Southey; "A Female Jury," Arlo Bates; "L'Envoi," "The Seven Seas," Kipling...
...winter of 1901 Mr. Lane made a six weeks' trip through Egypt, going up the Nile as far as the second cataract. The pictures which he took of the cataracts, the pyramids, the Sphinx, and other interesting subjects, will be shown by the stereopticon...
...Lane made a six weeks' trip through Egypt during the winter of 1901, going as far as the second cataract of the Nile. The pictures which he took of the cataracts, the pyramids, the Sphinx, and other interesting views will be shown on the screen...
Professor Lyon will speak of the scenes of modern life along the Nile from the first cataract to Cairo, a region which contains many of the most important ruins of ancient Egyptian times, and will show views of the temples and tombs along the river...