Word: landed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cruse. Sever, 1st d. 2d a., Dobby. Stevenson, 2d d. 3d. a., Wall. Carter, 3d d. c., Kennedy. Hoguet, c. 3d. d., C. De Casanova. Penhallow, 3d a. 2d. d., L. De Casanova. Alvord, 2d a. 1st d., McConaghy. Goddard, 1st a. c.p., Rose. Michell, o.h. p., Land. Hardy, i.h. g., Doyle...
...Peruvian Government has offered to give Harvard the land needed for extending the University observatory at Arequipa. In addition, the instruments and equipment for the observatory will be allowed to enter the country free of duty. The President of Peru was led to this action by reading a report by Professor Pickering, showing the need of a large telescope in South America, where the dryness of the atmosphere makes it possible to do the work of a forty-inch telescope with one of twenty inches. The report also showed that the field for astronomical work in the Southern hemisphere...
Number 2213 is an order from Aphthonius to Ofellius to pay ten jars of new wine "for the service of the land-owner's house," and to Amethystus, a veterinary surgeon, for one jar of wine. Another one, 2214, is a list of personal property, chiefly clothing...
...University has purchased about 400 acres of land on Squam Lake, New Hampshire, for a camp where the courses in Surveying and Railroading (Engineering 4a, 4c, and 4d) will be given hereafter entirely in the summer. The land is well located within a few miles of Centre Harbor, which will be the Post Office address. It is especially well adapted for topographic work of any kind and for hydrographic survey. The area is about 1 1-2 miles of lake front on the farm. The lake itself, about eight miles in length by two in width, is situated...
...return victorious to Norway and wed the beautiful Sylvia, to whom Leif is betrothed. Sigurd incites the crew to mutiny and they engage the medicine man to offer Leif some drugged wine. Leif and Tyrker return at dusk and drink copiously of the wine and and Leif names the land "Wineland the Good." The drug has its effect and both drowsily fall on the rocks. They doze off to sleep as Sigurd and the Vikings go aboard ship and raise the sails...