The Better New York

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Baker and Taylor Company, 1904 - 320 Seiten
 

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Seite 127 - Opening of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 1822.
Seite 149 - Due to the efforts of the Church Association for the Advancement of the Interests of Labor, about 900 retail grocery and provision dealers established 10 PM as the Saturday closing hour.
Seite 176 - Dramatic Idyls, vol. xv. p. 144). A mythical king, fabled to have had three bodies and three heads. GHIBERTI, LORENZO (Old Pictures in Florence : Dramatic Lyrics, vol. vi. p. 86) (1378-1455). The sculptor who executed the bronze gates of the Baptistery at Florence, which Michael Angelo said were worthy to be the gates of Paradise.
Seite 205 - The union of the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons and the American Veterinary College and the adoption of the consolidated Institution as a school of the New York University was accomplished In 1899.
Seite 159 - The fundamental principle of the Society and its governing motive is that of "self-help" — of teaching children how to help themselves. It also advocates that the " farmer's home " is the best possible place to shelter and rear the homeless, orphan, or outcast child, far better than any asylum or the...
Seite 215 - ... the 120-foot floor eastward from the cleared field at the head of Percival Creek ravine, along the north side of the valley, until, standing on the easternmost remnant, the waters of Budds Inlet can be seen. The terrace surface here is covered with bowlders and cobbles. Black Lake, in the col swamp, is two and a half miles long and half a mile wide. Its longer axis lies with the channel and its surface is nearly 120 feet above tide. From its western side the shore rises abruptly to a 155-160-foot...
Seite 231 - A monument to the soldiers and sailors who died in the service of their country in the Civil War was erected in Riverside Park in 1902, and was dedicated on Memorial Day with appropriate ceremonies.

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