Word: surround
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient fortifications are 25 feet thick and 40 feet high at some places, and they completely surround the city. Posibly this is the place referred to as Mizpah in the Bible...
...pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround the acquisition of sunburn without the inconvenience of sand in ones hair and ears...
...Hall is swept by the draughts of a thousand petty enmities, jealousies, hungers, hatreds. When William finds Trevor in his wife's bedroom he does the natural thing, the thing that was expected of him. He takes a shotgun and follows him into the woods that surround Monk's Hall...
...Olympic's bridge rubbed his cheek and said: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." At half past seven the firing-stopped because Commodore Dewey had won the battle of Manila Bay. San Juan Hill.* Along the edge of the sandy mounds that surround Santiago, Cuba, the U. S. Army waited until July. Then one morning the first cavalry, holding rifles across their chests, rushed up San Juan hill. Behind them was the second brigade, 500 men on horseback standing in their stirrups and galloping along, shouting curses or encouragement to one another like polo players. They called...
...Friday they set out, the Mayor in a third-class coach, for Ireland, birthplace of Mr. Walker's father. Their boat-train stopped at the Welsh town of Llanfairpwyllcylghlantsillohogh, which not even the glib Walker tongue could surround. Welcomed in Dublin as a homeboy, the Mayor of New York admitted that his eyes were full of tears; but he retained enough presence of mind to tell reporters that if they asked him about Irish politics he would "throw them out of the window." He sped to the paternal home, Castlecomer; waved at babies and grannies, made a speech...