Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following action was taken on the death of H. C. Carter...
...plot in the main is as follows: Lovewit, after the death of his wife, retires to the country, leaving his house in the care of Jeremy, his servant. Jeremy forms a partnership with Subtle, a sham alchemist, and setting up furnaces and apparatus in Lovewit's house, they prepare to conjure money from the credulous. Disguised as Captain Face, Jeremy lures in customers, and then as the grimy servant of the Alchemist, assists in gulling the victims. The play represents a day's business, one customer following another. Dapper wants a "familiar" to make him win at cards. Drugger comes...
Professor Alexander Agassiz '55, Director of the University Museum, has been elected on the eight foreign associates of the French Academy of Sciences, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes...
...Francis Boott '31 died at his home 1737 Cambridge street, Cambridge, yesterday. He had been failing for the past month and his death is assigned to a general breaking down of the system. He was 91 years of age and was the second oldest surviving Harvard graduate...
...lecturer gave a detailed account of the manner of preparing the condemned for the scaffold, from the moment when they had heard their death sentence in the hall where sat the Revolutionary Tribunal up to the time when the victims were made to ascend the cart waiting at the gate of the Conciergerie. The itinerary followed by these carts on their way to the scaffold can readily be traced along the existing streets of the French metropolis...