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Word: cleared (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mile gave the juniors a very close rub, but just at the finish ninety-one went ahead of them. The seniors won in eleven minutes from the start, the juniors were three quarters of a length behind them and the freshmen about a yard behind the juniors; there was clear water between ninety-three and ninety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Races. | 5/9/1890 | See Source »

...their times, occupying a definite place in the history of the world, the prophets are elucidated by every investigation that sheds light on their times. This the inscriptions do more fully than any other line of study. By making the general course of contemporary history in western Asia clear, by furnishing precise chronological data, and by clearing up a multitude of references in the prophets to Babylonian and Assyrian matters, the cuneiform inscriptions are the best friend to the student of the prophets. The so-called "contract tablets," by revealing all phases of the social life at Babylon while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lyon's Lecture. | 5/9/1890 | See Source »

Welsh, of Columbia, is said to clear over 10 feet in the pole vault. Dr. Savage, of the Berkeley Athletic Club, says that Columbia would be almost sure of winning the intercollegiate cup this year if the methods of scoring had not been changed. He counts on Columbia's taking both hurdles, the broad jump, mile walk and pole vault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/8/1890 | See Source »

...indebted of course to the Bible for much of Jewish history. It goes back about four thousand years from our day. The Babylonians in this period were permeated with a spirit of conquest and roved over much of Westem Asia. Their life is clear to us from their records from 1000 B. C. down. About 800 B. C. the Assyrians also started out on a western campaign. Abeut 770 B. C. there came to their throne one of their greatest kings. A hundred years later the kingdom was in pieces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lyon's Lecture. | 4/18/1890 | See Source »

Finally, the Cuneiform Inscriptions are important as making clear the general trend of history in Western Asia, and also of many strange names occurring in the Old Testament hitherto not to be accounted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Lyon's Lecture. | 4/18/1890 | See Source »

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