Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...money, tithes and taxes, and offerings to the gods. The great Sippar temple seems to have carried on a large system of lending. One of the tablets exhibited still has the finger prints of the writer. One was a list of families, perhaps slave families. One beautifully written large fragment was a list of the names of men, it may be tax payers...
...excavation on the Acropolis. It is in the form of a beautifully preserved head of Iris belonging to the frieze of the Parthenon, which exactly fits and completes a portion of slab at the British Museum. In recognition of his work the Greek authorities have presented the original fragment and a cast of the whole slab to the American school. The American excavations at Ikarie and Starnata have also yielded good results, and the government has given permission to dig at three other important places, but lack of funds prevents our school from taking the lead of all the institutes...
...means of a large map, Mr. Winsor examined the features of Plymouth Harbor and incidentally the adventures of the people of the Mayflower on that stormy Friday night when they first landed on American soil, He then described the scenes attending the removal of a fragment of the original rock on the shore to its present position and told the story of the feat of General Winslow and his horse Beausejour in swimming the channel at the entrance to the harbor. General Winslow had made a wager with three of his companions that he would give them an hour...
...Fletcher, whose remarkable "Moon Fragment" will be recalled by readers of the Monthly, gives increased evidence of his imaginative faculty and of his literary power in "The Fire-Maiden." The story of how a young student becomes interested in Socialism, then implicated in its worst form, and draws down in his ruin a noble but deluded woman, is in itself extraordinarily well done. But when we add to this the extraordinary turn which the narration takes in the course of the doctor's tale, in which we learn how the two victims of the infernal plot become also the victims...
...arrangement of the stage had at some time been altered. Several rows of seats and a water-course encircling the orchestra, apparently of the same construction as that surrounding the orchestra of the theatre of Dionysus at Athens, were brought to light, as well as pieces of statues, a fragment of an inscription and bits of architectural members of what appears to have been the stage building...