Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Near the modern town of Sebastiyeh, were found the remains of a stadium or amphitheatre, which are marked by lines of columns on the north and west. A portion of the northern end was cleared, revealing some handsome masonry at the northwest corner, apparently belonging to a later period...
...Samaria, the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. Professor Lyon, who left last spring on leave of absence to supervise the excavations, returned recently and reports gratifying results. The work was carried on at two sites intermittently from the middle of April until August 21. The first site is near the modern village of Sebastiyeh, and is marked by a cluster of columns, belonging, supposedly, to a temple erected by Herod the Great...
...time of the action of the play is the period of the Dreyfus trial. The first act takes place in Wolfstamm's estate near an Austrian watering place; the second and third acts are laid in Hartwell's office, adjoining Convention Hall; the last act shows Hartwell's summer house. The final cast is as follows: Raymond Hartwell, R. M. Middlemass '09 Rabbi Elchanon, D. Gardner 2L. Albert Gregor, O. Lyding '09 Sir James Wingate, E. A. Bemis '11 Von Schlegel, J. M. Longyear '10 Wolfstamm, A. J. Bloom '11 Schamberg, A. Gregg '11 Liefert, W. White '10 Ussishkof...
...clock. He will outline, for the first time, his new theory for reaching the North Pole, which he hopes to employ in his next Arctic expedition. Vast ice-floes, starting from Behring Sea, have floated across the comparatively open water around the North Pole, into the region near Greenland. Mr. Baldwin intends to establish a camp of portable houses, with an adequate supply of fuel and provisions, on one of these ice floes and to drift with it, and in this way, he expects to reach the North Pole...
Many households far and near will keep the feast of plenty, many others through want and poverty will not. We do not live in a state of communism sharing all things alike, nor will the hungry be filled miraculously. Thanks given merely in words are empty and will have no significance unless they actuate a spirit of altruism and deeds of charity...