Word: walls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smith first worked as a clerk in some iron works; and was later educated as a mechanical engineer. He constructed the government sea-wall around Governor's Island in New York Harbor, and another at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. However, Mr. Smith later gave up engineering for painting. He has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmanyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo...
...annual indoor track and field meeting of the Lawrence Light Guards in the Armory at Medford Saturday evening, the 780-yard relay team easily outdistanced the Brookline Gymnasium Association team. Guild, who ran first for Harvard, passed Wall, of Brookline, after a hard fight. Everett and Ryley increased this lead and Fernald was far ahead of Hedlund at the finish...
...southeastward course of the excavations for the Cambridge subway, the southwest corner of the original "Harvard College," built in 1638, has been unearthed. On December 8, 1909, about forty feet of the wall of Edward Goffe's House, which stood on an adjoining lot, was discovered a little to the west of Wadsworth House, running parallel with the street. The piece just discovered is about 40 yards below Wadsworth House...
...corner is almost directly opposite the entrance to Holyoke House, and is in a perfect state of preservation. It is constructed of field stones. The wall running to the east appears to extend under the sidewalk around the "College Yard." The upper courses of both walls leading from the corner were removed years ago when the water mains were installed along Massachusetts avenue...