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...rattlesnake is rather rare in New England, but each year a few are found in the Blue Hills and in the woods around Lynn. These creatures kill their prey by means of the venom which is secreted by means of a tube running to the base of their hollow teeth. These snakes cast off their skins several times each year, and every time that this occurs a rattle is added to their tails. These rattles are very fragile and easily broken off, and so the age cannot be told accurately by this means...
...Fellows and Overseers, and many of Judge Hoar's associates of the supreme court, the Massachusetts bar, and the Historical Society were present. The services were held at the late residence. The burial was private and the remains were interred in the family lot in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery...
...semi-circular part of the building has a single story reaching above the rest of the building. It will be used for a lecture room and will seat more than five hundred people. The structure will be absolutely fireproof. The partition walls are of brick and of hollow terra cotta tiles, while the columns, girders, and trusses are of iron, the columns surrounded by terra cotta tiles...
...balance between parties; but such men ignore the fact that achievement is possible only by compromise and union. What parties need now is not principles, but men, the best, the wisest men of the country. In the face of this need the answer of the independent comes like hollow mockery. Well might parties say to such men: "We asked for bread and ye gave us a stone...
...funds necessary for the erection of an athletic house have been subscribed and already work on the building has commenced. The building will be erected on the site formerly occupied by the Willard house at the entrance to Soldiers Field. It will be built in the form of a hollow square and will essentially be a locker house, since it will contain over two thousand lockers. The house will be two stories high and, in addition to the lockers, will contain rooms for the accommodation of both the 'varsity and the visiting teams. There will be no bath-tubs...