Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...came to stand for syllables. Beyond this the Babylonians refused to go, but the Persians, on adopting the script, rejected most of the signs and reduced the rest to an alphabet of about forty-six letters. The place and date of the origin of the script are unknown. The oldest recovered specimens are from about 4000 B. C., and come from Tello in Southern Babylonia. The essential feature of the script, after the period of picture writing was past, is the wedge. These in combination make all the signs, several hundred in number. The script read at first downwards...
Sidney Bartlett, '18, died yesterday in Boston at the age of 90 years. He was the oldest graduate practicing law, and throughout his entire life was noted for his energy and devotion to his profession...
...Harvard Bicycle Club is the seventh oldest in America, and is just ten years old. The race-meet will be a fitting celebration of the close of its first decade...
...Sidney Bartlett, the oldest graduate of Harvard at present practicing law, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on Wednesday last...
...oldest lawyer living and still pleading at the bar is Mr. Sidney Bartlett, a graduate of Harvard College. He is now past his ninetieth year, and lately argued a case with ability and success...