Word: containing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...volumes in the edition of the novels of Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett, and published by Macmillan and Co., contain A Sportsman's Sketches. Turgenev began his literary career and won an enormous popularity in Russia by his sketches from peasant life. These volumes contain some of the best of his short stories, and gain a special interest from the influence they had upon the action of the late Czar in his more kindly treatment of the serfs...
...early as 600 B. C. there was great funeral display, which Solon and other later rulers tried in vain to check. The earliest form of monument was a simple tablet, which later is found elaborately carved. They usually contain the names of the person to whom the monument is erected, his father, and those who set up the tablet. As the stones become more elaborate we find figures carved in relief. Some of these suggest, though roughly, figures in the frieze of the Parthenon. In the Attic monuments we find the hoplite, the sailor perched on the prow...
...sand-stone slab which forms a kind of balustrade to the steps at the entrance to Harvard Hall, the society intends to have an inscription cut at once. It will contain the name of the Hall and the dates of its erection and the dates of the erection and destruction of the two buildings which had before been located on the site of the present hall...
...meagre facilities, which the authorities of the Harvard College Observatory have had in the past for the publication of the results of their work, and the need of some means of making a more prompt announcement has induced them to issue a series of circulars, as required, which shall contain matters of interest and information such as discoveries made at the observatory, the results of the recent observations, new plans of work and gifts or bequests. It is not proposed to give these circulars a wide distribution, but rather to use them as a means of bringing new facts...
...description of the photographs taken at various times, which contain the star is given and an examination of all the photographs of the region containing this star, sixty-two plates in all, taken between May 17,1889, and Mar. 5, 1895, shows that no trace of the star is visible, although on some of them stars as faint as the fourteenth magnitude are clearly seen. On nine plates, taken between April 8, and July 1, 1895, the star appears and its photographic brightness diminishes during that time from the eighth to the eleventh magnitude...