Word: lies
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...recently announced the startling theory that the temples and the fountain called Enneacrunus, named by Thucydides in this chaper, did not lie south and southeast of the Acropolis, as scholars have supposed, but to the west. His latest excavations have been made with the expectation of establishing by the aid of the spade the truth of his belief...
...Troy which Homer celebrates, the citadel of Priam, a real city? And where did it lie?" With these questions Professor Dorpfeld, after a brief introduction, began his lecture in the Fogg Art Museum, last night, on the "Excavations at Troy." He referred to the fact that different answers had been given to these questions both in antiquity and in the present day. There lay, in antiquity, on a hill in the valley of the Scamander, three or four miles distant from the Hellespont, a Greek city called Ilion, adorned with a temple of Athena. The inhabitants of this city believed...
...part of the winter, has been discontinued. The correspondence method of play requires a long time and only about twenty moves have been made in each of the two games. Several methods of deciding the match have been proposed but it has finally been decided to let the games lie over until next year and to finish them next fall. The match is very close and for this reason the Harvard players prefer to postpone it rather than to have it decided by disinterested persons as the Yale players proposed...
...Christian Association last evening Mr. Rice, of the Springfield School for Christian Workers spoke of the new and growing opportunity offered to college men to engage in educational and religious work. The Springfield School trains lay helpers to undertake the managerment of Sunday School work and those matters which lie outside the pastor's duties. The year's course of study includes normal work as well as Bible study and lectures. It is not the intention of the school to furnish a short-cut to the ministry, but to equip men, who do not feel called to preach, to meet...
...future of the method seems to lie in the application of currents of high frequency and very great electromotive force, such as one obtains by the use of the Thomson or Tesla coil and by the use of only one terminal. In this way the breakage of the tubes can be prevented...