Word: tracted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government (doubtless beholding the influx of tourist money to Egypt) offered to buy and raze some 20 blocks in the business section of Athens and give the right of excavation to the American School of Classical Studies* (backed by 40 U. S. institutions). Twenty to 30 feet beneath the tract lies the Athenian market-place as it was known by Themistocles, Plato, Demosthenes, et al., in whose day it was as the Forum in the grand days of Rome. Temples and statues famed throughout antiquity will come to light "of far greater importance than Pompeii...
...island, when the Phipps Estates- of which Henry Phipps, Pittsburgh steel man, former colleague of Carnegie, is the leading figure-bought 3,000 acres in Suffolk County with several miles of frontage on the Atlantic Ocean and Shinnecock Bay. The Phipps estates have also an option on another large tract. A month ago Carl G. Fisher, Miami real estate man, bought 9,-000 acres near Montauk Point. And Otto H. Kahn last week leased for 15 years, with option to purchase, 678 acres at Easthampton -for purposes unmentioned. Shore property is reported to have risen from...
...Haven, Conn., October 12.--Dean H. S. Graves of the Yale Forestry School has announced that the Yale Corporation, with the approval of the Athletic Association, has set aside 200 acres of the Ray Tompkins Memorial tract near the new Yale golf course as a preserve for the native plant and wild life of this region...
This vast memorial includes 700 acres. It was presented to Yale University as a memorial by Mrs. Ray Tompkins to her deceased husband, one of Yale's greatest-early athletes and captain of the 1884 football team. Formerly, the tract was the property of John Milton Greist, who devoted it for more than two decades as a preserve for deer, elk, and other big game...
Henceforth, 200 acres of the total estate will be used as a santuary, for animals and plants and will also be used for field studies and instruction by the departments of botany, zoology and forestry. For a long time this extensive tract of forest has been under excellent protection and care. Around a portion of it is still found the high woven wire fence which confined the deer and elk when its former owner, Mr. Griest of New Haven, used the land as a deer park...