Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University Club of New York has purchased property on the corner of Fifth avenue and Fifty-fourth street, where a six-story club house will be built...
...heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus, the Romans erected a temple to Minerva upon all. To do this they levelled the top of the hill...
...digging a trench from the north through the hill. He found that Troy was surrounded by high walls of stone, surmounted by sun-dried bricks. The bricks were slabs, one foot and a half by four inches, held in place by uprights and cross-beams of wood. Every fourth course of bricks was replaced by a cross beam...
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