Word: five
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Tenney has been in the service of the Chinese government for some twenty-five years, having been tutor in the family of Li Hung Chang, as well as secretary for the Chinese ministers in the international complications following the Boxer uprising. Later he was Chinese secretary for the International Commission. Since 1906, Dr. Tenney has been in charge of the Chinese students in this country. Last year be directed the successful Chinese entertainment in the Union for the benefit of the famine-sufferers. His successor as director of American students is as yet undecided...
...early life of the historian was spent in exhaustive reading, and after a short and unprofitable period at Magdalen College, Oxford, he went abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...
These collections will be on exhibition for about five weeks and are open to the public...
Class-room exercises will be held ordinarily in the forenoon of five days of the week for six weeks...
...reflecting telescope, the largest of its kind in the world, is now being installed in the Observatory. Its mirror, which was purchased from the estate of Dr. A. A. Common of Ealing, England, in 1904, is five inches thick, has a diameter of five feet, and weighs over half a ton. Three months of continuous work were spent in shaping the mirror from the rough disc, and 410,000 strokes of the polishing machine were needed to give it the required smoothness. The preparation of the site was begun September 28, 1904, and the remounting has since gone on slowly...