Word: cut
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stairways into wedge shaped divisions. The outer row of seats was about three hundred feet from the orchestra and had an actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once been a noble and majestic structure but it is now only a bewildering mass of ruins...
...three volumes of "Dichtung und Wahrheit" had appeared. It is an easy running narrative, composed of journals and letters to various people. The work appeared in two volumes, the original manuscripts from which Goethe made up the first volume have just been published, and it is seen that he cut out the personal elements in preparing the work for the public. Goethe made a rare use of his eyes in travelling-not that he saw everything, but it is wonderful what an amount he did see. It is interesting, too, to note how the desire to inquire into the causes...
...architecture. The entrance was changed to the west end, and the Hekatompedos became the nave of the church, an aps being constructed at this end of the temple. The great chamber, or Parthenon, became the antechamber of the church, and was connected with the Hekatompedos by doors cut through the solid wall which had hitherto separated them. The interior arrangement of the temple was so changed as to make it conform to that of a Christian church, and vaulted ceilings were introduced...
Professor Nash was compelled to cut his recitations yesterday owing to a severe cold...
There was a cut in Philosophy 13 yesterday...