Word: layers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...against evil spirits, and these figures are often merely impressed upon the stone while still in the soft condition. Seals with writtings on various subjects have been found, and one of the most important ones we have shows that it was used in some important commercial transaction. An extra layer of stone was layed over the seal for protection, and upon the outside of this, writings similar to those the original seal contained were made. From the fact that the outer covering was unremovable except by chemical means, we conclude the seal must have been exceedingly valuable...
...unpublished. He differs from many others in his classification, and in regarding sponges as individuals not as colonies. A sponge is essentially a globular sieve with the meshes prolonged into a labyrinth of minute tubes. Contrary to the general belief, sponges breathe by means of their outer layer. The inner layer consists of small cells armed with whips which create a current to draw in the small water animals which form its food. Between these two is another layer, which secretes the chalky, or horny, spicules which form the skeleton. All sponges are modifications of this simple form. Among...
...gave a rather incoherent lecture to a small audience in Bangor on Monday evening. Among other things, he drew a diagram, on which he represented himself as on the top of a high mountain, exceeding in knowledge everybody else in the world. He placed Harvard graduates in the bottom layer, bunco steerers next above them, and then Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...very large - among the law students certainly from one fourth to one third; and so the question simply is, Cannot a system of marking, without compulsion, be employed? To all industrious students this would be a matter of indifference. Would it not save the majority of the lower layer of our future government officials from that "bumming" which must occur when one wastes from one to three years of his life? The academic freedom would not be affected in the leas; by this plan, only the right to conceal laziness from parents, guardians and the university officers would...
...insure their possessions, or pay the janitors more? While the loss of a few articles, apparently of no use to any but their owners, seems hardly calculated to inspire very profound wrath, it does become irritating when repeated each summer. But perhaps these are the perquisites of the carpet-layer, or of that strange boy whom no one knows and yet who manages to prove himself so much at home in the college rooms during the summer. The safest course after all is to strip the room for the summer, or give your worldly possessions there contained to the janitor...