Word: thereabout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lever was contesting the Wirral (Cheshire) district, in opposition to one Holt. The year was 1908 or thereabout...
...journey by train and horse. At Alishar, rare and well-preserved examples of Hittite culture were unearthed in a mound twelve layers deep, one dead city atop its dead predecessor. Out of the dusty ruins were dug instruments for which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry-flint-pronged threshing boards, wooden water jars, grain cradles, grinding stones. The relics, some of them beautiful in glaze and form, with an estimated age of 4,000 years, point...