Word: towns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...through this district, towns were being destroyed by the Turks in their effort to subdue the Christian uprising. Daily from Monastir bands of soldiers would march, carrying cans of petroleum with which to set fire to the insurgent villages. In Krushove the suffering was intense. Here 24 Bulgarians had for a time made a stand against 7,000 Turks, till at last they were shot down, and the town sacked...
...Town", by W. A. White...
...Yale Advisory Athletic Committee in conjunction with the Faculty Committee has announced some important athletic reforms. They are in brief: that the number of out-of-town games shall be cut down; that the athletic squads on out-of-town trips shall be very much reduced; that only the minor teams and class organizations shall be allowed to solicit subscriptions; and that students shall be charged only half admission to the championship games...
...principal object of the expedition is to examine well-known myocene deposits on the York River and to secure for the Department of Geology a collection of the marine fossils peculiar to this section. The party will go by train to Baltimore and thence by boat to York-town, returning by way of the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia, the Richmond Coal Basin and Washington...
This was not, however, what struck me most in the occurrence. Seeking an opportunity to thank Professor Shaler afterwards, I found that he was out of town and when we met, after a week or two, it appeared that the whole affair had passed very much out of his mind, he saying frankly that he did so much of that sort of thing that he might easily have confused it with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next...