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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were our only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping-bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point. Our couch was formed of rough stones; we never quite succeeded in getting it even tolerably even, and our most important business throughout the winter was, therefore, to bend the body into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 3/30/1897 | See Source »

...living accommodations in the hut which they built were not sumptuous. Here is the record: "For cooking, lighting and heating we used walrus blubber and bear's fat. Bear's fies and fat were our only food. In the evening we fried it in a large aluminum pan; in the morning we boiled it. We made our bed and sleeping bag of bearskin. To keep warmer we both slept in one bag, and, taken altogether, we were quite comfortable in our low hut. By the help of our lamps we succeeded in keeping the temperature inside at about freezing point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARTHEST NORTH. | 3/29/1897 | See Source »

...Sophocles and Euripides were first brought out. In the earliest period there was only a simple, circular area; the spectators sat upon rows of wooden benches. To Aeschylus, near the beginning of the fifth century, was due the introduction, upon the edge of this circular area of a wooden hut, or skene. This was the origin of the "stage" building. In the fourth century the theatre was rebuilt in stone, but a wooden proscenium was retained. At a later date this proscenium was rebuilt in stone. It is in the Roman epoch that we find the elevated stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRE AT ATHENS. | 10/20/1896 | See Source »

Hits - Pennsylvania, 9; Georgetown, 10. Errors - Pennsylvania, 3; Georgetown, 4. Batteries - Schoen hut and Reuning; Mahoney and Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Georgetown, 7; Pennsylvania, 6. | 5/7/1895 | See Source »

...wishes If victory comes to them, the men may well feel proud of their record; it will be a triumph over odds which will increase the satisf action of winning. If they loose, there will be still another chance to even up the honors and the defeat should be hut a spur to greater effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obituary. | 4/29/1893 | See Source »

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