Word: rest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Reading Room seems to be open on Sundays at the wrong hours. It is very often the case that men would like to take the opportunity on Sunday to clear up back work, and yet they would not feel justified in using the whole of a day intended for rest, for such a purpose. On one day a week, at the least, it is good for a man to take a certain amount of rest and recreation out in the open air. Now the present hours at the Library Reading Room put a premium on spending Sunday afternoons indoors...
...building is owned by Alfred Hemenway of Boston. The loss to the building, including the loss of rent for the rest of the year, will be about $10,000. The occupants' losses will amount to about...
...candidates for the track team resumed training in the Gymnasium yesterday after a two weeks rest. After exercising half an hour with the pulley-weights and dumb-bells, the runners ran to Porter's Station while the men trying for the field events received instructions from Mr. Graham in the Gymnasium. The men are now expected to get themselves into good condition as quickly as possible. Work in the Gymnasium, varied by long walks or runs, will be continued until the track on Soldiers Field can be used...
...brilliancy has decreased if anything. Since 1887 there have been ten new stars found, eight by the Harvard Observatory and two by Dr. Anderson. In 1891, and at the present time, the stars were discernable to the taked eye, but the only evidences in the world that the rest have existed is contained in this collection...
...most interesting region of the world, almost no excavations and no organized research are being conducted. The surveys of the British Palestine Exploration Fund, though carefully and thoroughly carried out, have covered but a very small part of the territory, and the valuable archaeological relics scatte red over the rest of it are being destroyed or carried away by business companies or by the Arab traders. The country has been the scene of some of the greatest events and periods of the world's history, and traces and records of these periods, now being obliterated, could be brought to light...