Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...largest share. Among the casts on the floor are bronze and stone weights in the shape of lious and ducks from the commercial system of the Babylonians and Assyrians. There are five clay books that deserve special mention; the sun god in his temple at Sepharvoim., a grant of land by a Babylonian king to his servant, the cuneiform account of the deluge, a record of Nebuchadnezzar's building operations and a sale of real estate at Babylon in the 6th century B. C. The most interesting cast is one facing the door, and is a book of Nebuchadnezzar...
...McNamee intends to erect a new dormitory on the corner of Main and Bow streets. The building is to be four stories high and will have three suites on each floor. It will cost about $22,000, exclusive of the land, and it is to be of brick, with a frontage of 74 feet on Main Street and 87 on Bow. The entrance will be on Main Street...
...University of Texas is well provided for. It has an endowment of over 2,300,000 acres of land, besides a half million dollars in bonds...
Question: "Resolved, That a properly adjusted tax on land should be substituted for the present system of taxation...
...revolutionary and socialistic in its tendencies; a. inaugurates government ownership of land; b. abolishes entire revenue system; c. gives too much power to central government...