Word: stones
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many of the most valuable books have come. The writings may be classed as historical, imaginative, religious, scientific and social. The historical records, giving the accounts of the royal wars, limits and erection of cities, palaces and temples, are written on rock mountain sides, on stone statues, monuments, and slabs, but especially on clay books in the shape of prisms, cylinders and tablets. Besides such documents there are others of the nature of historical compilations, while still others are proclamations or letters from the king, petitions to him or reports from his generals and his governors. The total impression made...
Brief for the Negative.J. M. Newell and J. S. Stone...
...building is devoted to special work. Here everything depends on stability of position. Besides small recitation-rooms and small laboratories, there are small rooms where the professors, assistants and advanced students can work without any disturbance of their instruments. In the basement, and in the first story, stone tables, each supported by its own column of masonry, and without contact with the floors, furnish firm support for the instruments. In the centre of the western wing there is a large rectangular tower, standing on an independent foundation, and isolated from the surrounding rooms; this tower is designed for investigations demanding...
...been made from the early part of this century up to the present time for the excavation of ruins in Babylonia and Assyria. The Babylonia and books proper can hardly be called books in our sense of the word, since they are nothing more than finely inscribed tablets of stone or baked clay. The ruins from which these tablets have been taken are to be found in almost every part of the country above the Persian Gulf, which is now known as Babylonia and Assyria. Throughout the whole of this region traveling is difficult and dangerous, and although great efforts...
Each member of last year's Yale eleven may choose between a gold watch charm in the shape of a football and a cameo ring with a raised football of red stone set in it, as a championship trophy...