Word: valley
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...very interesting one, is made up of nineteen fragments, written in Greek, in different states of preservation, and of various sizes. Twelve of them were found at Oxyrhynchus, an Egyptian town, and the seven others came from various towns in the Fayum, a district west of the Nile valley. All of these fragments, with many more which have been found by the Egypt Exploration Fund, are described at some length in the publications of the Fund,--"The Oxyrhynchus Papyri," a work in two volumes by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt of Oxford, and "Fayum Towns and Their Papyri...
...essential to mountains. Young mountains, vigorous and not worn down, do rise to the regions of perpetual snow, but there are mountains which may be said to have been subdued, that is, worn down to even slopes from their original height. Mountains are broad upheavals in which valleys have been cut by streams, and peaks result from the working together of valley sides...
...Hurlbut spoke at the annual dinner of the Connecticut Valley Harvard Club in Springfield on Wednesday...
...poems: A sonnet; a somewhat longer poem called "The Death Chant of the Viking"; and a short bit of literary appreciation--"On a Little Verse." The remaining contributions are: "His Letter," by R. W. Ruhl; "The Young Lady," by G. C. St. John; "Dan Dan'lson of the Yadkin Valley," by R. W. Page; and "The Unbeaten Path," by R. W. Child...
...first prize has been awarded to Monroe Buckley, 1L., for ten pictures mostly of mountain scenery. Numbers 24, "East Rock, New Haven;" 25, "The Franconia Notch;" 26, "Sunset on Mt. Lafayette;" and 28, 29 and 30, of Mt. Osceola and the Waterville Valley, are deserving of mention. The last two show striking cloud-shadow effects. Second prize is given to H. H. Ruston, 1G. His principal picture, "Morning," number 157, is an artistic view of a hillside pasture, with clumps of hard wood trees, and a hazy distance. "A Barnyard Study," number 154, and "Sheep" and "Firelight Study," numbers...