Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Editor Daudet's house, picked up his wife (who is also his cousin) then motored to the Prison Santé. There Mme. Daudet made arrangements to have her husband supplied with his favorite viands from a neighboring restaurant; and brought him, later in the day, a set of Greek and Latin classics with which he proposes to amuse himself during his five months' jail term. The incident seemed closed-triumphantly. It was not. Next day the venerable mother of M. Daudet sent an open letter to Premier Raymond Poincaré which was published in L'Action fran...
...parliament, with only private encouragement of public men. Hundreds of natives were employed in excavating, removing. The people of Greece showed no resentment. Indeed the interest attaching to the work brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows when human victims were wanting. In 1816, a select committee of the House of Commons reported to Parliament in favor of formal purchase of the "Elgin marbles" at a price of ?36,000. The proposal was accepted. Lord Elgin formally...
Today 9.15 o'clock Chemistry 7Emerson D Comp. Literature 10 Harvard 5 Comp. Literature 22 Harvard 6 Fine Arts 5s Fogg Lect. Rm. French 10 Harvard 2 Government 17b Sever 35 Government 18b Sever 36 Greek G II Sever 30 History 38 Sever 30 Latin B III Sever 18 Philosophy 3b Emerson D Physics C New Lect. Hall Physics 3b Emerson D Tomorrow 9.15 o'clock Anthropology 8 Emerson J Botany 10 Gray Herb. Chemistry 9 Harvard 6 English 4 Emerson J French 5, 1 o'clock section French 24 Emerson J German A Mr. Hawkess, sects. 13, 19 Memorial...
Cleopatra discusses everything from Greek philosophy to Tennessee evolution, and always she manages to insinuate the worst. Only at intervals does she make some mater-of-fact statement which catches the reader's fancy and conveys more truth then all of her long dissertations. For example, she says: "At the slave bazaar I also purchased a negro porter and a Greek philosopher. I paid five thousand sesterces for both of them --a most exorbitant price...
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