Word: clay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under the auspices of the Harvard Shooting Club there will be held next Thursday, on the club's range at Allston, an inter-class shooting match. Each team will consist of four men, and clay pigeons will be used. The teams have not yet been selected...
...members of N. H. 4 visited the clay pits of West Cambridge last week...
...downfall of their mighty civilization, centuries before Christ, their records were lost till the site of Babylon was identified in 1765. It was not till 1848 that the labors of Botta, Place and Layard brought to light several Assyrian palaces and a mass of sculptures and writings on clay...
...largest collection of mounds is the Turner group which contains the famous Large Mound. This is made very carefully and of many kinds of material, the foundation being a circle of stone one hundred feet in diameter, firled in with burnt clay, over which is a layer of mixed iron and gravel packed into a solid mass like concrete. This gravel made a floor for the support of two altars. That the mound was used exclusively for religious rites is certain from the fact that after some great religious festival in which thousands of treasures of all kinds were heaped...