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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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A sub-committee was chosen to take charge of the affair. The dinner will be held next week, and a book for signatures will be placed at Leavitt's immediately-Men must sign at once.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner to the Eleven. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

Dr. Tarbell delivered last night in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, an interesting lecture on the Sculptured Funeral Monuments of Ancient Athens. Only the monuments of independent Athens were considered, for when Athens ceased to be free sumptuary laws were enacted against sculptures on tombstones, and for some time these laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Tarbell's Lecture. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

The Persian invasion marked a great period in the art of sculpturing the monuments, as well as in many other things. The style became freer, and the designs more complicated and interesting. There is, however, a great scarcity of funeral monuments for fifty years after the Persian war, which has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Tarbell's Lecture. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

The monuments are not to be judged by the same standard as for instance, the Parthenon frieze. They are probably the work of mere craftsmen. Many, nevertheless, possess great beauty, though they vary much among themselves. It has been suggested that they were kept in stock, but there is no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Tarbell's Lecture. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

The monuments have already attracted the attention of lovers of art, and the Romans carried many of them away from Greece to adorn their villas. Their greatest value to us is that they give evidence of a noble and dignified family life in ancient Greece, and show, in contrast to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Tarbell's Lecture. | 11/26/1889 | See Source »

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