Word: siting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Resuming our ride, we saw the Harvard Coliseum, the sports ground, more schools, relics of the Revolution, the God's Acre immortalized by Longfellow, and circled round to Longfellow's own house, where his daughter still resides. Near the house is the site of the 'Spreading Chestnut Tree.' The cottage of the 'Village Blacksmith' remains. About here there are many exquisite Colonial houses. Those that belonged to the Tories (i.e., the British loyalists who fled before the Revolutionists) are still identified by their white chimneys with a black band...
...Independence was declared. Sam Houston was chosen Commander-in-chief of the Texan Army. On "San Jacinto Day" (April 21) Texans still celebrate the final victory of his 743 raw troopers over the 1600 soldiers of General Santa Anna on the banks of the San Jacinto River near the site where Houston City later rose. Sam Houston was the first and only president of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845). He was U. S. Senator from Texas from 1846 to 1859. Elected Governor, he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy, was deposed...
...curious death of Jan Vermeer der Delft has in some part, been responsible for recent arguments about his works. A popular young painter, it was his misfortune to have lived in Delft in a studio near the site of a powder magazine. This, one disastrous day in 1675, exploded, removing all trace of Jan Vermeer, together with the majority of his works. In the excitement of losing so much good gunpowder, it was possible for people to forget the loss of an artist. The few of his paintings, about 40, which were not destroyed, remained obscure until 1871 when they...
...Bossy" is the original apostle of progress. When the old shade trees of a colonial are in the way of a filling station site, they must come down. The world moves on, and those who obstrud its progress can be converted to boosterism in the manner of His Honor. He was arrested afterwards, but not before as he modestly acknowledged in his inaugural address, had, "bounced his first off the then Mayor...
...much discussion recently provides a classic example of the unwise use of the conditional gift. A donor, as yet anonymous, has offered to present the Harvard Athletic Association with one third the estimated cost of erecting such a building, estimated at present at about one million dollars. The site that this building is to occupy has already been chosen and plans have tentatively been drawn, while Mr. Bingham and his aides are attempting to raise the some $600,000 that are still necessary for the structure's erection...